achieve
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English acheven, from the stem of certain conjugated forms of Old French achever such as je achieve (“I finish”). From un attested Late Latin *accappō, from ad (“to”) + caput (“head”) + -ō (verbal suffix). Cognates include Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish acabar, French achever.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
achieve (third-person singular simple present achieves, present participle achieving, simple past and past participle achieved)
- 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.
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- 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
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- To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
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- Some are born great, some achieve greatness - Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II-v
- Thou hast achieved our liberty. - John Milton
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- (obsolete) To obtain with a material thing as the aim
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- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved. - Prior
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description. - Shakespeare, Othello, II-i
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- (obsolete) To finish; to kill. - Shakespeare
[edit] Synonyms
- accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplish
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
to accomplish; to perform; to make complete
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to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion
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[edit] External links
- achieve at OneLook Dictionary Search
- achieve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
