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Reach   /ritʃ/   Listen
Reach

verb
(past & past part. reached, obs. raught; pres. part. reaching)
1.
Reach a destination, either real or abstract.  Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make.  "The water reached the doorstep" , "We barely made it to the finish line" , "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
2.
Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level.  Synonyms: attain, hit.  "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
3.
Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense.  Synonym: reach out.
4.
Be in or establish communication with.  Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through.  "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
5.
To gain with effort.  Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain.
6.
To extend as far as.  Synonyms: extend to, touch.  "Can he reach?" , "The chair must not touch the wall"
7.
Reach a goal, e.g.,.  Synonyms: get to, make, progress to.  "We made it!" , "She may not make the grade"
8.
Place into the hands or custody of.  Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over.  "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
9.
To exert much effort or energy.  Synonyms: strain, strive.
noun
1.
The limits within which something can be effective.  Synonym: range.  "He was beyond the reach of their fire"
2.
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:.  Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, scope.  "A piano has a greater range than the human voice" , "The ambit of municipal legislation" , "Within the compass of this article" , "Within the scope of an investigation" , "Outside the reach of the law" , "In the political orbit of a world power"
3.
The act of physically reaching or thrusting out.  Synonyms: reaching, stretch.
4.
The limit of capability.  Synonyms: compass, grasp, range.



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"Reach" Quotes from Famous Books



... Franco-Prussian War. He was a prolific and too hasty writer, but his novel of "Ravenshoe," whose scene is principally laid on the northern strip of Somerset coast, bordering the Bristol Channel, and which was his own favourite among his works, is considered by many critics to reach a high level, and to stand comparison with the work of his more famous brother. In the Academy of 1901 the following tribute to the book appeared under the initials C.K.B.: "I first read 'Ravenshoe' at that period when ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... proceeded, wondering whether such abominable nonsense was interesting the child, whose gaze had now begun to reach out to sea. In reality Rupert was thrilled, and did not like to disturb the flow of a story so affecting. But the strength of his feelings was too much. He was obliged ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... one of the kind who cannot think without perspiring. In the large room the ministers gossiped about eternal punishment, and of the two dominies one sat at his ease, like a passenger who knows that the coach will reach the goal without any exertion on his part, while the other paced the floor, with many a despondent glance through the open door whence the scraping proceeded; and the one was pleasantly cool; and the other in a plot of heat; and the one made genial remarks about ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... for the ideal young man. If I don't find him I shall die an old maid. But I shall find him. We may pass each other on Fifth Avenue. We may sit next each other at a theatre. Wherever it is, I shall just reach right out and grab him and whisk him away. And if he's married already, he'll have to get a divorce. And I shan't care who he is. He may be any one. I don't mind if he's a ribbon clerk or a prize-fighter or a policeman or a cab-driver, so long as ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... supper, which he sat before, In near reach of the wood-box, the stove-door And one leaf of the kitchen-table, was Somewhat belated, and in lifted pause His dextrous knife was balancing a bit Of fried mush near ...
— A Child-World • James Whitcomb Riley


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