achieve

verb

Etymology: From Middle English achieven, acheven, from Anglo-Norman achever, Old French achever, achiever et al., apparently from Late Latin *accapāre, from ad (“to”) + caput (“head”) + -ō (verbal suffix), or alternatively a construction based on Old French chief (“head”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish acabar, French achever.

1. To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
2. To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

   “achieve goals”

   “achieve objectives”

3. To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

   “Full many Countreyes they did overronne, From the uprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard adventures did atchieve […]”

4. To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

   “I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.”

   “Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.”

5. To conclude, to turn out.
6. To obtain (a material thing).

   “He hath achieved a maid That paragons description.”

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