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a⋅chieve

  [uh-cheev] verb, a⋅chieved, a⋅chiev⋅ing.
Use Achieve in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
2. to get or attain by effort; gain; obtain: to achieve victory.
–verb (used without object)
3. to bring about an intended result; accomplish some purpose or effect.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME acheven < OF achever to finish, from phrase a chef to (the) head (i.e., to conclusion). See chief

Related forms:
a⋅chiev⋅a⋅ble, adjective
a⋅chiev⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. consummate, complete; effect, execute; realize, reach. See do 1 . 2. realize, win.
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a·chieve   (ə-chēv')   
v.   a·chieved, a·chiev·ing, a·chieves

v.   tr.
  1. To perform or carry out with success; accomplish. See Synonyms at perform.
  2. To attain with effort or despite difficulty. See Synonyms at reach.
v.   intr.
To accomplish something successfully; perform at a standard or above standard level: skills needed to achieve in school.

[Middle English acheven, from Old French achever, from a chief (venir), (to come) to a head; see chief.]
a·chiev'a·ble adj., a·chiev'er n.
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Achieve

A*chieve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Achieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Achieving.] [OE. acheven, OF. achever, achiever, F. achever, to finish; [`a] (L. ad) + OF. chief, F. chef, end, head, fr. L. caput head. See Chief.]

1. 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. --I. Taylor.

2. To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness. --Shak.

Thou hast achieved our liberty. --Milton.

Note: [[Obs]., with a material thing as the aim.]

Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved. --Prior.

He hath achieved a maid That paragons description. --Shak.

3. To finish; to kill. [Obs.] --Shak.

Syn: To accomplish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute; perform; realize; obtain. See Accomplish.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Achieve
Spanish: conseguir, lograr,
German: erreichen,
Japanese: なしとげる
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achieve 
c.1325, from O.Fr. achever "finish," from phrase à chef (venir) "at an end, finished," or V.L. *accapare, from L.L. ad caput (venire); both the O.Fr. and L.L. phrases meaning lit. "to come to a head," from L. caput "head" (see head).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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