About The Word Achieve
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Achieve
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What's The Definition Of Achieve?
[v] to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks."
Synonyms | Synonyms for Achieve: accomplish | attain | reach Related Terms | Find terms related to Achieve: accomplish | acquire | act | actualize | approach | arrive | arrive at | arrive in | attain | attain to | be productive | be received | blow in | bob up | bring about | bring into being | bring off | bring through | bring to fruition | bring to pass | carry off | carry out | cause | check in | clock in | come | come in | come to | come to hand | commit | compass | complete | conclude | conquer | consummate | crown with success | deal with | discharge | dispatch | dispose of | do | do the job | do the trick | do to | effect | effectuate | enact | engineer | execute | fetch | fetch up at | find | finish | fulfill | gain | get | get by | get in | get there | get to | go and do | hit | hit town | industrialize | inflict | knock off | make | make it | manage | mass-produce | obtain | overcome | overproduce | pay | perform | perpetrate | polish off | pop up | produce | pull in | pull off | punch in | put across | put away | put over | put through | reach | realize | render | ring in | roll in | score | secure | show up | sign in | succeed | succeed in | surmount | take and do | take care of | time in | turn the trick | turn up | up and do | volume-produce | win | work | work out | wreak See Also | average | begin | come through | come to | compass | culminate | finagle | get to | make | manage | progress to | score | strike | succeed | wangle | win Achieve In Webster's Dictionary \A*chieve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Achieved}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Achieving}.] [OE. acheven, OF. achever, achiever, F.
achever, to finish; [`a] (L. ad) + OF. chief, F. chef, end,
head, fr. L. caput head. See {Chief}.]
1. To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a
perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to
achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far
more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a
capital, invigorating motive than without it. --I.
Taylor.
2. To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed
in gaining; to win.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness. --Shak.
Thou hast achieved our liberty. --Milton.
Note: [[Obs]., with a material thing as the aim.]
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
--Prior.
He hath achieved a maid That paragons
description. --Shak.
3. To finish; to kill. [Obs.] --Shak.
Syn: To accomplish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute;
perform; realize; obtain. See {Accomplish}.
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