Meaning of achieve | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
   intransitive
2. To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
   transitive
3. To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
   obsolete, transitive
4. To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
   transitive
5. To conclude, to turn out.
   intransitive, obsolete
6. To obtain (a material thing).
   literary, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“achieve goals”

“achieve objectives”

“You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.”

“Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.”

“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.”

“Full many Countreyes they did overronne, From the uprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard adventures did atchieve […]”

“I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.”

“Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness.”

“Thou hast achieved our liberty.”

“He hath achieved a maid That paragons description.”

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“Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.”

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