Win Over

Definition: Win Over

Win Over

Verb

1. Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Win Over

Belief

Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.

Content

Render content; Adjective: set at ease, comfort; set one's heart at ease, set one's mind at ease, set one's heart at rest, set one's mind at rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win over, propitiate, disarm, beguile; content, satisfy; gratify.

Motive

Persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.

Crosswords: Win Over

If you think that blonde hair, large breasts and home cooking will win over my husband, you have a lot to learn about men! (The Pitts; writing credit: Mike Scully)

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Books

• How to Win Over the Stranger You've Just Met Vol. III: How To: Create the Right Image by Your Attire and Grooming, Small-Talk and Converse, Display In (reference)

• How to Win over Impotence-Frigidity (reference)

• How to win over nervousness (reference)

• Basketball's Biggest Upset: Texas Western Changed the Sport With Win over Kentucky in 1966 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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But there is still the ruined wall, and, near it, the stealthy tread of the foe that would win over again his unforgotten triumph.

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Business

Financing plans are also key in order to win over new clients. (references)

Economic History

Afghanistan

The failure of the Soviet Union to win over a significant number of Afghan collaborators or to rebuild a viable Afghan army forced it to bear an increasing responsibility for fighting the resistance and for civilian administration. (references)

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Afrikaans

verslaan (defeat). (various references)

Albanian

bind dikë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قنع (bring, get smb. to do smth., hide, incline, induce, mask, move, persuade, push through, sell). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скланям (bring round, decline, induce, inflect, persuade, resolve, win, win round), спечелвам на своя страна (win round). (various references)

Czech

naklonit si. (various references)

Danish

besejre (defeat). (various references)

Dutch

zegevieren (defeat, triumph), verslaan (defeat, give an account, report), overwinnen (defeat), bevangen (abashed, defeat, self-conscious, shy). (various references)

Esperanto

venki (defeat). (various references)

Faeroese

vinna (defeat, earn, gain, win), sigra (defeat). (various references)

Finnish

voittaa (be superior to, beat, defeat, derive profit, earn, exceed, gain, gain conquer, get the better of, overcome, profit, surpass, win). (various references)

French

vaincre. (various references)

German

siegen (be victorious, defeat, triumph, victories, win), meistern (defeat, manhandle, master, overcome, to master), hinüberziehen (move across, pull across, pull over), einnehmen für, bewältigen (cope, cope with, deal with, defeat, exceed, manage, overcome, surpass, to cope, to master), besiegen (beat, conquer, defeat, discomfit, down, knock out, overcome, overthrow, put down, repress, subdue, thrash, to conquer, to defeat, to discomfit, vanquish), bemeistern (defeat), überwinden (defeat, get over, negotiate, outgrow, overcome, quell, subdue, subjugate, surmount, to overcome (overcame, vanquish). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשכ� ע (convince, explain away, persuade). (various references)

Hungarian

elhódít. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

靡かす (to conquer, to seduce, to win over), 靡かせる (to flutter, to fly, to subdue, to win one's heart, to win over), 手懐ける (to tame, to win over), 手なずける (to tame, to win over), 懐ける (to win another's heart, to win over), 引き込む (to draw in, to win over), 引き入れる (to drag into, to win over), 口説き落とす (to persuade, to prevail upon, to talk someone into doing, to win a woman's heart, to win over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なびかす (to conquer, to seduce, to win over), なびかせる (to flutter, to fly, to subdue, to win one's heart, to win over), なつける (to win another's heart, to win over), くどきおとす (to persuade, to prevail upon, to talk someone into doing, to win a woman's heart, to win over), ひきいれる (to drag into, to win over), ひき�"む (to draw in, to win over), てなずける (to tame, to win over). (various references)

Manx

cur fer er my heu. (various references)

Papiamen

vense (defeat), derotá (defeat). (various references)

Pig Latin

inway overay

Romanian

cîştiga (defeat, earn, gain, win), învinge (beat, best, break through, circumvent, conquer, defeat, discomfit, dispose, drub, flog, floor, get the better of, knock, master, overcome, overmaster, overpower, pull through, reason down, surmount, thrash, vanquish, whip, win, worst). (various references)

Russian 

склонить на свою сторону. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadobiti (gain, get, obtain, receive). (various references)

Spanish

convencer (convince, keep off, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon, satisfy, talk into, win round), conquistar (capture, carry, conquer, gain, take, win round), atraerse (win, win round). (various references)

Swedish

besegra (beat, best, checkmate, conquer, defeat, fight down, flog, hammer, knock out, lick, nobble, overcome, overwhelm, pip, vanquish, worst). (various references)

Turkish

yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, wipe the floor with smb., worst), kendi tarafına çekmek, dostluğunu kazanmak (conciliate, gain over, win), desteğini almak, altetmek (circumvent, defeat). (various references)

Ukrainian

умовити (talk into). (various references)

conciliare, concilio, propitiaberis, propitiabilis, propitiabitur, propitiare, propitiatu, propitiatur, propitieris, propitietur, propitio, repropitiaberis, repropitiabitur, repropitiaret, repropitiatus, repropitietur. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inwove, renvoi, wivern.

-2 letters: envoi, irone, ovine, owner, rewin, rewon, riven, roven, rowen, vireo, vower, wiver, woven.

-3 letters: enow, inro, iron, nevi, noir, nori, oven, over, rein, rive, rove, vein, vier, view, vine, vino, vrow, weir, wine, wino, wire, wive, wore, worn, wove, wren.

-4 letters: eon, ern, ion, ire, new, nor, now, one, ore.

+1 letter: overwind, wingover.

+2 letters: downriver, interwove, nonviewer, overawing, overswing, overwinds, reavowing, windhover, wingovers, wolverine.

+3 letters: interwoven, nonviewers, oversewing, overswings, overwinter, windhovers, wolverines.

+4 letters: counterview, overblowing, overdrawing, overflowing, overgrowing, overwarming, overwearing, overweening, overwetting, overwinding, overwinters, overworking, overwriting, overwritten.

+5 letters: counterviews, overbrowsing, overcrowding, overpowering, overstrewing, overswinging, overthrowing, overwatering, overweighing, overwhelming, overwintered, servicewoman, servicewomen.