reach
/ɹiːt͡ʃ/ verbo A2En español: alcanzar, tender, percanzar, llegar a
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand). · He reached for a weapon that was on the table.· He reached for his shoe with his legs.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over. · to reach someone a book
- To stretch out the hand.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc. · to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear· “I can't quite reach the pepper. Could you pass it to me?”
- To strike or touch. · His bullet reached its intended target.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent. · his hand reaches the river· When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind. · After three years, he reached the position of manager.· The climbers reached the top of the mountain after a gruelling ten-day hike.
Plural reach · He/she/it reaches · Pasado reached · Participio pasado reached · Forma en -ing reaching
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- reach
- He/she/it
- reaches
- Pasado
- reached
- Participio pasado
- reached
- Forma en -ing
- reaching
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.
The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Réserve basin.
On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
But the Mouse reached his hole in safety.
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