achieve
IPA: ʌtʃˈiv
verb
- (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
- (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
- (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
- (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
- (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
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Examples of "achieve" in Sentences
- The player achieved his goal to win the game.
- Assess the achievement of the acquisition goal.
- All singles from the album have achieved giddy success.
- The ultimate boon is the achievement of the goal of the quest.
- During the subjugation of the Shanyue, Cong achieved great success.
- Excessively adulatory biographies do not achieve this project's goals.
- The Beatles were the first British group to achieve success in the USA.
- At the end of the ceremony, the goal was achieved and with a huge surplus.
- Seen as the writings of a dutiful daughter, they achieved critical success.
- The purpose of the steps is to aid in the achievement of the over arching goal.
- All Clinton can hope to achieve is to make certain that Obama does not win against McCain. chris
- But what we have been able to achieve is to provide more and more care on an ambulatory and community basis.
- All they seem to achieve is to make martyrs of the likes of Griffin and Irving, surely a daft result if ever.
- The end result which we are really trying to achieve is to change public attitudes toward our market economy system.
- Paul Flynn has rushed to Alun Cairn's defence, although all he seems to achieve is to remind us just how ancient he really is:
- So another part of what we hope to achieve is to bring a really good idea to life – which I think is part of what drives every creative project.
- I think public opinion has already hardened, and about the only thing he can realistically hope to achieve is to stop the bleeding in his poll numbers.
- All three of us are very interested in writing and publishing and other creative things, so part of what we hope to achieve is to puttogether a book that we can be proud of.
- I think that a respectable goal that most students would like to achieve is to get criticisms or critiques on some of their most well-developed ideas, stories, essays, artworks, etc.