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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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Etymology of 'Achieve'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... soul with pride and the consciousness of a high calling, was the thought that he would now carry into effect what the Romans, and in later times the Anglo-Saxon and Plantagenet kings, and last of all the Tudors, had sought to achieve by force of arms or by policy, but ever in vain—the union of the whole island under one rule, like that which native legendary lore ascribed to the mythical Arthur. When he came to Berwick, around which town the two nations had engaged in so many bloody frays, he ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... future existence undeveloped capacities and persistent yearnings for all kinds of good may find expansion and exercise, and not only our moral but also our intellectual being put forth new powers and achieve progress in new directions, then in some of the successive heavens to which, perhaps, I may be allowed to climb (if to any) I shall be a painter of pictures; a mere idea that suggests a heavenly state of long-desired capacity, to possess which, here on earth, I would give at once the finger ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... whose powers were concentrated in the hands of M. Clemenceau, had little time to attend to these grievances. For its main business was the re-establishment of peace. What it did not fully realize was the gravity of the risks involved. For it was on the cards that the utmost it could achieve at the Conference toward the restoration of peace might be outweighed and nullified by the consequences of what it was leaving undone and unattempted at home. At no time during the armistice was any constructive policy elaborated in any of the Allied countries. Rhetorical exhortations ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... for instance. It is curious how the leaders of the last revolution (under Louis XVIII.) seem to have despised one another. Brienne is very dull and flat. For Puseyism, it runs counter to the spirit of our times, after all, and will never achieve a church. May God bless you! Robert's regards go with the ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... absorptive powers strengthened by the more they take up. They belonged to a not-unusual class of men whom it takes about as long to get thoroughly drunk as it does to heat up an iron-furnace, but the condition that they achieve then makes the intoxication of other and ordinary men seem a very mild and ...

— The Red Acorn • John McElroy

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