Achieve

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  • intransitive verb. To gain with effort or despite difficulty; reach.
  • intransitive verb. To succeed in accomplishing; bring about: synonym: perform.
  • intransitive verb. To accomplish something successfully; perform at a standard or above standard level.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To perform or execute; accomplish, as some great enterprise; finish; carry on to a prosperous close.
  • To gain or obtain, as the result of exertion; bring about, as by effort.
  • Synonyms Effect, Accomplish, etc. (see perform), bring about, work out.
  • To acquire, win, obtain, get.
  • To come to an end.
  • To accomplish some enterprise; bring about a result intended.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
  • transitive verb. To finish; to kill.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. to gain with effort
  • Word Usage
    "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."