win back
Verb
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Verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To win money that one has previously lost.
- He lost $1000 in one hand, and spent most of the night trying to win it back.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To regain favour (with).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To get (someone) to be one's partner, after having been apart.
- John, my ex-boyfriend, said he wanted to see me again, so I told him how much I wanted him in an effort to win him back.
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