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achieve
[ uh-cheev ]
verb (used with object)
- to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish:
The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
Synonyms: reach, realize, execute, effect, complete, consummate
- to get or attain by effort; gain; obtain:
to achieve victory.
verb (used without object)
- to bring about an intended result; accomplish some purpose or effect.
achieve
/ əˈtʃiːv /
verb
- to bring to a successful conclusion; accomplish; attain
- to gain as by hard work or effort
to achieve success
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Derived Forms
- aˈchiever, noun
- aˈchievable, adjective
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Other Words From
- a·chieva·ble adjective
- a·chiever noun
- outa·chieve verb (used with object) outachieved outachieving
- prea·chieved adjective
- super·a·chiever noun
- una·chieva·ble adjective
- una·chieved adjective
- well-a·chieved adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of achieve1
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Example Sentences
So however detailed the statistics of the battlefield are, they cannot achieve the goal.
So, how do we achieve such equality in the U.S. and other parts of the world?
Following this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, the way to achieve world peace is to give everyone atomic bombs.
It seems like you had to make the Before trilogy first in order to achieve something like Boyhood.
Direct funds away from practices, policies, and programs that consistently fail to achieve measurable outcomes.
The artist, though emphasizing the latter, can scarcely achieve power in this without also attaining the former.
We shall, I know, emulate their steadfastness and achieve a result which will confer added laurels to French and British arms.
Whilst Davout was marching and fighting to achieve his purpose, the main battle went against the French.
Mere hastiness or slovenliness of work is not identical with the effect of inability to achieve mechanical neatness.
In respect to the measures which should be adopted to achieve the end desired, there was not the same unanimity.
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