achieve
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- Regno Unito//əˈt͡ʃiːv//
- Stati Uniti//əˈt͡ʃiv//
To carry out or conclude (something, as a task) successfully; to accomplish.
verbo
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To carry out or conclude (something, as a task) successfully; to accomplish.
to achieve one’s goals
Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.
You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.
[T]here could not be a more cruell Tyrant appointed to atchieve a more abominable enterpriſe.
- 2
To gain or obtain (a desired objective, result, etc.) through effort or skill; to succeed in attaining (an objective, result, etc.); to win.
And the frenche men entred in a mong the thyckeſt of them⸝ and ſpared no more to flee thẽ [them]⸝ than they had ben dogges⸝ and ſurely they had good cauſe ſo to do. For if yͤ flemynges had achyued the priſe ouer them⸝ they had bene ſerued of the ſame ſauce.
VVhy ſome are borne great, ſome atchieue greatneſſe, and ſome haue greatneſſe throvvne vpon them.
Thou haſt atchiev'd our libertie, confin'd / VVithin Hell Gates till novv, thou us impovv'rd / To fortifie thus farr, and overlay / VVithin this portentous Bridge the dark Abyſs.
Book[wit]. The Name of Soldier bids you better vvelcome: 'Tis Valour and Feats done in the Field, a Man ſhou'd be cry'd up for;—not is't ſo hard to atchieve— / Lat[ine]. The Fame of it you mean— […]
- 3
To obtain (a physical thing); to get.
Mon[tano]. But good Leiutenant, is your Generall vviu'd? / [Michael] Caſ[sio]. Moſt fortunately, he hath atchieu'd a maide, / That parragons deſcription, and vvild fame: […]
[U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
[…] I have bob'd your vviſe Guardian Mayor too, vvho, I hear, is crackt-brain'd yonder for loſs of his Heireſs, vvhom I have atchieved and married here in ſpite of ye by dint of Brain and Merit.
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obsoletoTo end or finish (something); to terminate; (specifically, military) to win (a battle or war).
So all theſe thynges tyme acheueth and burieth, but onely trouth, the whiche (of the tyme and of all thynge that is in the tyme) triumpheth, Neyther to be fauoured of the good, nor to be perſecuted of the ylle, may be, but that ſomtyme trouthe may be ſtopped and hydde, but whan it is diſpleaſed, and wyl diſpleaſe, than at the laſte ſhe cometh to a good porte, and taketh londe.
Bid them atchieue me, and then ſell my bones. / Good God, vvhy ſhould they mock good fellovvs thus? / The man that once did ſell the Lions skin, / VVhile the beaſt liued, vvas kild vvith hunting him.
Full many Countreyes they did ouerronne, / From the vpriſing to the ſetting Sunne, / And many hard aduentures did atchieue; […]
I had novv atchiev'd this rare adventure, ultimately much more to my ſatisfaction than I had beſpoke the nature of it to turn out, […]
- 5
To attain a goal; to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance; (generally) to make an effort; strive.
He could really achieve in school if he worked hard.
[He] Fights Dragon-like, and does atcheeue as ſoone / As dravv his Svvord: […]
VVhatever Men vvould undertake from a Paſſion to Glory, vvhatever they vvould do for the Service of their Country, this Youth has a Mind prepar'd to atchieve for the Salv[at]ion of Souls.
Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labor and to wait.
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arcaicoFollowed by to: to attain a certain position, status, etc.
Spitz was a practised fighter. From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all manner of dogs and achieved to mastery over them.
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obsoletoTo come to an end; conclude, end; also, to result, to turn out; or (uncommon) to be affected by fate in a certain way.
For god knoweth⸝ and ſo doth all other good townes⸝ that ye be ĩ [in] the ryght of this warre. Wherfore all your buſynes ſhall acheue the better.
The goddis unmortal haue made al thinges cõmunicable to mẽ mortal, except imortalite: ⁊ therfore they be callid ĩmortal, bicauſe they neuer dy, ⁊ we be called mortal and fallyng, bicauſe we all take an ende. […] O my frende Cincinate, thus acheueth the perſones, but the goodes neuer.
Etimologia
From Middle English achieven, acheven (“to accomplish (something); to acquire or obtain (something); to carry out or finish (something); to succeed in (something); to happen, turn out”), from Anglo-Norman achever, achiever, Middle French achever, achiever, and Old French achever, achiever (“to accomplish (something); to finish (something); to succeed in (something)”) (modern French achever), and then from either of the following: * Old French a- (prefix denoting addition or increase, or a change of state) + chief (“end; head”) (compare traire a chief (“to be finished”), venir a chief (“to accomplish (something)”); and Late Latin ad caput venire (“to complete (something)”)) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming verbs). Chief is derived from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), possibly from *kap- (“head”). * Late Latin *accapāre, the present active infinitive of *accapō (“to finish”), from Latin ad- (prefix meaning ‘to’) + *capum (from caput (“head”); see further above) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). cognates * Catalan acabar * Late Latin achevare, acheviare (“to acknowledge feudal liability; to complete, end”) * Old Occitan acabar (modern Occitan acabar) * Portuguese acabar * Spanish acabar
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achieve · To carry out or conclude (something, as a task) successfully; to accomplish.
achieved · Having been reached, attained or accomplished.achievement · The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance;…achieving · An achievement; the process of achieving something.