win up

verb

To get back on one's feet.

First used 14th–19th c.
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Meanings

verbwin up (third-person singular simple present wins up, present participle winning up, simple past and past participle won up)

present singular third person wins up · participle present winning up · participle past won up · past won up

  1. obsoleteTo get back on one's feet.First known use 14th–19th c.

    And so they ran togydirs so myghtyly that ayther smote other downe, horse and all, to the erth; and than they wan up lyghtly, and drewe swerdys and dressed their shyldis […]

    1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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