"gain on" meaning in English

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "gained on",
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    },
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The ocean gains on the land.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To encroach on."
      ],
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          "ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):",
          "text": "My gentleness and good behaviour had gained so far on the emperor and his court[…] that I began to conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To obtain influence with."
      ],
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          "ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Soon, the van lurched into a high gear and started gaining on Zoe, who was running as fast as her little legs would carry her.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest."
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          "text": "The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To get the better of; to have the advantage of."
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  "word": "gain on"
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    },
    {
      "form": "gaining on",
      "tags": [
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    {
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    },
    {
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  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The ocean gains on the land.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encroach on."
      ],
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          "ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):",
          "text": "My gentleness and good behaviour had gained so far on the emperor and his court[…] that I began to conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obtain influence with."
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Soon, the van lurched into a high gear and started gaining on Zoe, who was running as fast as her little legs would carry her.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest."
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get the better of; to have the advantage of."
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gain upon"
    }
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  "word": "gain on"
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