achieve
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of achieve
6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
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verb
- (intransitive)To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
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(transitive)To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
“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.”
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(obsolete, transitive)To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
“Full many Countreyes they did overronne, From the uprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard adventures did atchieve […]”
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(transitive)To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
“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.”
- (intransitive, obsolete)To conclude, to turn out.
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(literary, transitive)To obtain (a material thing).
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English achieven, acheven, from Anglo-Norman achever, Old French achever, achiever et al., apparently from Late Latin *accapāre, from ad (“to”) + caput (“head”) + -ō (verbal suffix), or alternatively a construction based on Old French chief (“head”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish acabar, French achever.
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