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win someone's heart en · VERB

To gain the love or affection of someone.
- Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her. 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
- Nay, he hath won my heart, and with it goes my hand, and throne, and all I have—[…] 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVIII, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
- She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters. 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
winning someone's heart	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
wins someone's heart	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
win the heart of someone		alternative	lexicographic
won someone's heart	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
won someone's heart	Tense=Past		lexicographic