win away

win someone away (from someone or something)

to convince someone to dissociate from someone or something. We were not able to win Christine away from her strange ideas. We tried to win her away but failed.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lestari	les-TAH-ree	Indonesian
Crenshaw	['kren.ʃɔ:]
Sampson (1)	-	Biblical Greek
Kaj (2)	KIE	Swedish (Rare)
Oneida	o-NIE-də	English
Filip	FEE-lip (Dutch), FEE-leep (Polish, Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Mac