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WIN BACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
Example:
He got back his son from the kidnappers
Synonyms:
get back; win back
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
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
