arrive
/əˈɹaɪv/ verb A1- To reach; to get to a certain place. · We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.· He arrived home for two days.
- To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed. · He had finally arrived on Broadway.
- To come; said of time. · The time has arrived for us to depart.
- To happen or occur.
He/she/it arrives · Past arrived · Past participle arrived · -ing form arriving
Verb forms
- Base form
- arrive
- He/she/it
- arrives
- Past
- arrived
- Past participle
- arrived
- -ing form
- arriving
From the library
I sailed for the Island of Elba, where I arrived the next day; I ordered everybody to remain on board, and went on shore alone.
As we had no doctor on board, and he was so anxious to arrive at Elba, that he would not touch at any other port, his disorder rose to such a height, that at the end of the third day, feeling he was dying, he called me to him.
Upon arriving at home they prepared to kill the Cock, who thus pleaded for his life: “Pray spare me; I am very serviceable to men.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “you will admit that, when arrived at a certain degree of fortune, the superfluities of life are all that can be desired; and the ladies will allow that, after having risen to a certain eminence of position, the ideal alone can be more exalted.
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