Win-back meaning

(idiomatic) To win money that has been lost.

He lost $1000 in one hand, and spent most of the night trying to win it back.

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(idiomatic) To regain favour (with)
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(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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Win-back Sentence Examples

  • Could she win back what she had thrown away?

  • After a year of zealous work as preacher and director he was sent by the bishop, Claude de Granier, to try and win back the province of Chablais, which had embraced Calvinism when usurped by Bern in 1535, and had retained it even after its restitution to Savoy in 1564.

  • But Bonaparte abolished that trade during the Hundred Days, though he also failed to win back the people of San Domingo, or, as it was now called by its original name, Haiti, to obedience.

  • Young, ardent and active, he strove with all his might to win back for England something of the position which it had acquired under Edward I.

  • This was of the less importance, as the Church immediately made preparations to win back the lost territory.

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