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win up
vb. (context obsolete English) To get back on one's feet. (14th-19th c.)
Usage examples of "win up".
He picked Win up and with not much help from the other guy, deposited him flat on his back.
Yet our men (together with those who were not men in form and yet gave liegeship to the Light) patrolled the upper reaches of the heights, beating off attacks that strove to win up sheer rock to come at us.
That we should win up its stark sides with no supplies, no sustenance, in this grim land—.