win someone's heart

win someone's heart verb: to gain the love or affection of someone.

Verb

win someone's heart (third-person singular simple present wins someone's heart, present participle winning someone's heart, simple past and past participle won someone's heart)

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...
- 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

third-person singular present	wins someone's heart
present participle	winning someone's heart
past participle	won someone's heart
past	won someone's heart
alternative form	win the heart of someone

What does win someone's heart mean?: Win someone's heart means to gain the love or affection of someone.
What part of speech is win someone's heart?: Win someone's heart is a verb.
What is the past tense of win someone's heart?: The past tense of win someone's heart is won someone's heart.

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