win

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To achieve victory or finish first in a competition.
• intransitive verb To achieve success in an effort or venture.
• intransitive verb To achieve victory or finish first in.
• intransitive verb To receive as a prize or reward for performance.
• intransitive verb To achieve or obtain by effort.
• intransitive verb To gain (respect or love, for example) by effort: synonym: earn.
• intransitive verb To make (one's way) with effort.
• intransitive verb To reach with difficulty.
• intransitive verb To take in battle; capture.
• intransitive verb To succeed in gaining the affection or loyalty of (someone).
• intransitive verb To succeed in gaining the favor or support of; prevail on.
• intransitive verb To discover and open (a vein or deposit) in mining.
• intransitive verb To extract from a mine or from mined ore.
• noun A victory, especially in a competition.
• noun First place in a competition.
• noun An amount won or earned.
• idiom (win the day) To be successful.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To win; succeed.
• noun A victory; a success; an act of winning.
• noun Strife; contention.
• To dry or season by exposure to the wind or air: as, to win hay; to win peats.
• To acquire by labor, effort, or struggle; secure; gain.
• Specifically
• To gain by competition or conquest; take, as from an opponent or enemy; obtain as victor.
• To earn: as, to win one's bread.
• To obtain; derive; get: as, to win ore from a mine.
• To be successful or victorious in: as, to win a game or a battle.
• To accomplish by effort; achieve, effect, or execute; succeed in making or doing.
• To reach; attain to; arrive at, as a goal or destination; gain; get to.
• To cause to attain to or arrive at; hence, to bring; convey.
• To gain the affection, regard, esteem, compliance, favor, etc., of; move to sympathy, agreement, or consent; gain the good will of; gain over or attract, as to one's self, one's side, or one's cause; in general, to attract.
• To prevail on; induce.
• In mining, to sink down to (a bed of coal) by means of a shaft; prepare (a bed of coal) for working by doing the necessary preliminary dead-work: also applied to beds of ironstone and other ores.
• In the United States the word win, as used in mining, has frequently a more general meaning; it is thus defined in the glossary of the Pennsylvania Survey: “To mine, to develop, to prepare for mining.” See winning.
• To strive; vie; contend.
• To struggle; labor; work.
• To succeed; gain one's end; especially, to be superior in a contest or competition; gain the victory; prove successful: as, let those laugh who win.
• To reach; attain; make one's way; succeed in making one's way: with to.
• To get; succeed in getting: as, to win in (to get in); to win through; to win loose; to win up, down, or away; to win on (to get on, either literally or figuratively).
• To gain ground on; gain upon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.
• intransitive verb [Obs.] to be conqueror over.
• intransitive verb To gain ground on.