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verb

Achieve v. t. (past & past part. achieved; pres. part. achieving)

To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise. "Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it."

To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness." "Thou hast achieved our liberty." Note: ((Obs)., with a material thing as the aim.) "Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved." "He hath achieved a maid That paragons description."

To finish; to kill. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To accomplish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute; perform; realize; obtain. See Accomplish.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... very much was busy experimenting how to steer balloons. To achieve that means a realisation of my dream, namely, to fly in the air, to approach the sky, and have under one's feet the moist, down-like clouds. Ah, how interested I was in my friend's researches! One day, though, he came to me very much excited with a ...

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... every Sunday after church and absorbed the time that used to be hers. But the need for a job was too pressing for Nance to harbor prejudices. Instead of sewing for the Lavinskis that night, she sewed for herself, trying to achieve a costume from the old finery bequeathed her ...

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... frequently ravaged Moesia, through the neglect of the Emperors. When a certain Aemilianus saw that they were 105 free to do this, and that they could not be dislodged by anyone without great cost to the republic, he thought that he too might be able to achieve fame and fortune. So he seized the rule in Moesia and, taking all the soldiers he could gather, began to plunder cities and people. In the next few months, while an armed host was being gathered ...

— The Origin and Deeds of the Goths • Jordanes

... Minister of War proposed the creation of a navy. He argued its need and the glories it might achieve with such gay and witty zeal that the travesty overcame with its humour even the swart dignity ...

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... It Is the Central Nursery of Character.—The inevitable outcome of the new freedom, education and economic opportunity of women gives us the problem of the modern family. The ideal of the democracy we are trying to achieve is higher personality in all the mass of the people. The method of democracy so far as we can see is education, perfected and universalized, by which all the children of each generation may be developed physically, mentally, morally, and vocationally ...

— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer

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