achieve
/əˈt͡ʃiv/ verb A2- To carry out or conclude (something, as a task) successfully; to accomplish. · to achieve one’s goals· Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.
- To gain or obtain (a desired objective, result, etc.) through effort or skill; to succeed in attaining (an objective, result, etc.); to win.
- To obtain (a physical thing); to get.
- To attain a goal; to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance; (generally) to make an effort; strive. · He could really achieve in school if he worked hard.
Plural achieve · He/she/it achieves · Past achieved · Past participle achieved · -ing form achieving
Verb forms
- Base form
- achieve
- He/she/it
- achieves
- Past
- achieved
- Past participle
- achieved
- -ing form
- achieving
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To be a great chemist in the East, one must direct chance; and this is to be achieved.”
Those were the early days at the end of the ’80’s, when Alec MacDonald was far from having attained the national fame which he has now achieved.
But the case is this:--we are not rich enough or grand enough for them; and she is the more anxious to get Miss Darcy for her brother, from the notion that when there has been _one_ inter-marriage, she may have less trouble in achieving a second; in which there is certainly some ingenuity, and I dare say it would succeed if Miss de Bourgh were out of the way.
I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron’s heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.”
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