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verb

Achieve v. t. (past & past part. achieved; pres. part. achieving)

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. "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."

To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness." "Thou hast achieved our liberty." Note: ((Obs)., with a material thing as the aim.) "Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved." "He hath achieved a maid That paragons description."

To finish; to kill. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To accomplish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute; perform; realize; obtain. See Accomplish.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Achieve" Quotes from Famous Books

... if ripped away by a Sargolian storm wind. The Cargo-master didn't approve. So there must have been another way to achieve their ends—one the younger members of the crew had been too inexperienced or ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... fired by the notion of conquering Canada. His idea was to get succors from France for this especial purpose, and with them and American aid to achieve the conquest. Congress was impressed and pleased by the scheme, and sent a report upon it to Franklin, to communicate to the French court, but Washington, when he heard of the plan, took a very different view. He sent at once a long dispatch to ...

— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge

... 1800 Pitt was able to achieve a momentous change in the affairs of Ireland. The chronic discontent of that country, largely due to the resentment of the Catholics at their exclusion from the rights of citizenship, had been fanned by the importation of revolutionary ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various

... case of fiction, they lack novelty of treatment, or for some other reason fail to be interesting, and in general there has not been infused into them the real breath of life. When they deal with serious subjects, they often cover ground which has been better covered before, or they attempt to achieve the not-worth-while, or ...

— The Building of a Book • Various

... palm, which the other took, "Will Scarlet, the name fitteth thee well. Right glad am I to welcome thee among us. I am called Little John; and this is a new member who has just joined us, a stout tanner named Arthur a Bland. Thou art like to achieve fame, Will, let me tell thee, for there will be many a merry ballad sung about the country, and many a merry story told in Sherwood of how Robin Hood taught Little John and Arthur a Bland the proper way to use the quarterstaff; ...

— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle

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