WIN BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does win back mean? 

• WIN BACK (verb)
  The verb WIN BACK has 1 sense:

1. recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost

  Familiarity information: WIN BACK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIN BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

get back; win back

Context example:

He got back his son from the kidnappers

Hypernyms (to "win back" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

There were many of us who were glad enough to win back our freedom, and yet who had no wish to have murder on our souls.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I nodded my head, but said, “We’ll all win back to San Francisco, Leach, and you’ll be with me when I go to see Matt McCarthy.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Buck could not hold his own, and swept on down-stream, struggling desperately, but unable to win back.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Know, base-born knave, that you have dared this day to stand in the path of one whose race have been the advisers of kings and the leaders of hosts, ere ever this vile crew of Norman robbers came into the land, or such half-blood hounds as you were let loose to preach that the thief should have his booty and the honest man should sin if he strove to win back his own.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)