List of synonyms from "gain control" to synonyms from "gaining ground"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms gain possession, gain friendship, gaining entrée, gaining ground, gain ground and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
- Gain control
- Gain entree
- Gain friendship
- Gain ground
- Gain ingress
- Gain mastery
- Gain on
- Gain possession
- Gain strength
- Gain time
- Gain victory
- Gain weight
- Gained
- Gained access
- Gained entrée
- Gained friendship
- Gained weight
- Gainer
- Gainful
- Gainfully
- Gaining advantage
- Gaining entrée
- Gaining friendship
- Gaining ground
Definition of the day : « gain time »
- As in delay : verb cause stop in action
- She wasn't quite sure what she had wanted to gain time for, that afternoon.
- Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
- But in the end she grew resigned and determined to gain time.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- Everything he had done or left undone had been to gain time.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- This was a crisis in which his only object had been to gain time—I fancy.
- Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad
- He must have been convinced of her death, and fled, using the boat to gain time.
- Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
- He expanded on this idea as he nailed away, anxious to gain time.
- Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland
- Lenore picked a rose to gain time, and looked into the wings.
- Extract from : « The Lowest Rung » by Mary Cholmondeley
- To gain time he asked her what she did with herself all day.
- Extract from : « Fraternity » by John Galsworthy
- I kept on asking these questions, because I wanted to gain time.
- Extract from : « The Birthright » by Joseph Hocking
- To gain time he put on his hat and coat, picked Bobby up, and opened the door.
- Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson