WIN BACK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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