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.”

“[U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point⟳ of our Land⟳ is laid open⟳: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.”

“Show⟳ all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.”

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