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Answer for the clue "Won thing ", 5 letters:
prize
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Etymology 1 n. 1 That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. 2 (context military nautical English) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured ...
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v. hold dear; "I prize these old photographs" [syn: value , treasure , appreciate ] to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry , prise ...
Usage examples of prize.
Tange Kenzo, who began winning prizes in architectural competitions during the war and later was for a time associated with Maekawa.
At length one of them slipped out, and hastened to acquaint Roderic with the impatience of his prize, and to communicate to him the substance of those artless hints, which, in the hands of so skilful and potent an impostor, might be of the greatest service.
He has worked assiduously to make Iraq strong so that it can dominate the region militarily, acquire new territorial prizes, and become the champion of the Arabs.
I wish they would: they do not possess a single ship of the line, and three of their fat merchantmen passed Amboyna last week - such prizes!
The beastie became nothing more than a prized belonging that spawned centuries of clandestine border crossings between England and Scotland by more than one Lockhart wishing to possess it, a practice that would endure for hundreds of years.
The chronicles relate, that no sooner had he mastered the Event, than men on the instant perceived what illusion had beguiled them, and, in the words of the poet,-- The blush with which their folly they confess Is the first prize of his supreme success.
If he poked only the front half of his body through the door and reached as far as he could with his paws, he might be able to grab some slices of brisket, pull them toward him, and wiggle his way back out with his prize.
He then entered the Royal Scottish Academy, and in the first year took the Stuart prize for figure painting, the Chalmers painting bursary, and the Maclaine-Walters medal for composition.
Mr Bergson at the Concours general prize distribution, 30th July 1895.
So Carter inferred that the merchants of the humped turbans, hearing of his daring search for the Great Ones in their castle of Kadath, had decided to take him away and deliver him to Nyarlathotep for whatever nameless bounty might be offered for such a prize.
And of course she prized the malty, creaturely tang that issued from between her legs.
Ghillas, the only royal female of marriageable age and a dizzying dower prize.
Smiling, handsomely clad in a red silk shirt and a black suede jerkin laced with scarlet cord, Melder sauntered up to inspect his prize.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Antoine de la Mery stroked the head of his pet mongoose, once more balanced precariously on the wheel, as he conned the prize into the bay.
The volcanoes in the Tharsis region had attracted geologists, and the vast canyons of the Valles Marineris where Shin-ichi Kawakami earned his Nobel prize by discovering microfossils of long-dead Martian life forms had lured more exobiologists.