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Reaching

noun

1.

The act of physically reaching or thrusting out. Synonyms: reach, stretch.

2.

Accomplishment of an objective. Synonym: arrival.

Reach

verb

(past & past part. reached, obs. raught; pres. part. reaching)

1.

Reach a destination, either real or abstract. Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make. "The water reached the doorstep" , "We barely made it to the finish line" , "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

2.

Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level. Synonyms: attain, hit. "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"

3.

Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense. Synonym: reach out.

4.

Be in or establish communication with. Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through. "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"

5.

To gain with effort. Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain.

6.

To extend as far as. Synonyms: extend to, touch. "Can he reach?" , "The chair must not touch the wall"

7.

Reach a goal, e.g.,. Synonyms: get to, make, progress to. "We made it!" , "She may not make the grade"

8.

Place into the hands or custody of. Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over. "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

9.

To exert much effort or energy. Synonyms: strain, strive.

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... be our ornamental water, choose an open seaboard with a heavy beat of surf; one much broken in outline, with small havens and dwarf headlands; if possible a few islets; and as a first necessity, rocks reaching out into deep water. Such a rock on a calm day is a better station than the top of Teneriffe or Chimborazo. In short, both for the desert and the water, the conjunction of many near and bold details is bold scenery for the imagination ...

— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson

... miles long. In a few hours the mercury had fallen from 103 degrees to 29 degrees, and we had ascended 6,987 feet in 105 miles! After passing through the sheds, we had several grand views of a pine forest on fire before reaching Truckee at 11 P.M. having traveled 258 miles. Truckee, the center of the "lumbering region" of the Sierras, is usually spoken of as "a rough mountain town," and Mr. W. had told me that all the roughs of the district congregated ...

— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird

... the Sixth, ten years before, had given the signal for the break-up of the European system. The iron army of Prussia made its first stride out of the narrow northern borders, into the broad arena of the West, and every new illustration of the fortitude and depth and far-reaching power of Prussia has been a new blow to the old Catholic organisation. The first act of this prodigious drama closed while Turgot was a pupil at the Sorbonne. The court of France had blundered into alliances ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Turgot • John Morley

... of the hill (which was almost like reaching a ceiling after climbing the side of a hideous brown-painted wall), I forgot my own troubles in thinking of the Brontes' tragedy of ...

— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... Bibboni speaks of a certain village where the people talked half German. The Imperial Ambassador at Trento forwarded them next day to Mantua; from Mantua they came to Piacenza; thence, passing through the valley of the Taro, crossing the Apennines at Cisa, descending on Pontremoli, and reaching Pisa at night, the fourteenth day after their ...

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