"win the day" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-win the day.ogg [Australia] Forms: wins the day [present, singular, third-person], winning the day [participle, present], won the day [participle, past], won the day [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|win<,,won> the day}} win the day (third-person singular simple present wins the day, present participle winning the day, simple past and past participle won the day)
  1. To gain complete victory or success over something or someone. Related terms: make someone's day
    Sense id: en-win_the_day-en-verb--ZRzt0dz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 80 20 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 77 23
  2. To be totally accepted by other people.
    Sense id: en-win_the_day-en-verb-biq2dNs4

Inflected forms

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