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[reech] | 1. | to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore. |
| 2. | to come to or arrive at in some course of progress, action, etc.: Your letter never reached me. |
| 3. | to succeed in touching or seizing with an outstretched hand, a pole, etc.: to reach a book on a high shelf. |
| 4. | to stretch or hold out; extend: reaching out a hand in greeting. |
| 5. | to stretch or extend so as to touch or meet: The bookcase reaches the ceiling. |
| 6. | to establish communication with: I called but couldn't reach you. |
| 7. | to amount to, as in the sum or total: The cost will reach millions. |
| 8. | to penetrate to: distant stars the eye cannot reach. |
| 9. | to succeed in striking or hitting, as with a weapon or missile: The artillery fire reached the shore. |
| 10. | to succeed in making contact with, influencing, impressing, interesting, convincing, etc.: a program that reached a large teenage audience. |
| 11. | to make a stretch, as with the hand or arm. |
| 12. | to become outstretched, as the hand or arm. |
| 13. | to make a movement or effort as if to touch or seize something: to reach for a weapon. |
| 14. | to extend in operation or effect: power that reaches throughout the land. |
| 15. | to stretch in space; extend in direction, length, distance, etc.: a coat reaching to the knee; a tower reaching to the skies. |
| 16. | to extend or continue in time. |
| 17. | to get or come to a specified place, person, condition, etc. (often fol. by to). |
| 18. | to amount (often fol. by to): sums reaching to a considerable total. |
| 19. | to penetrate: Fields of flowers extended as far as the eye could reach. |
| 20. | to assert or agree without certainty or sufficient evidence; infer hastily: I'd be reaching if I said I had the answer to your question. |
| 21. | Nautical.
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| 22. | an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun. |
| 23. | the extent or distance of reaching: within reach of his voice. |
| 24. | range of effective action, power, or capacity. |
| 25. | a continuous stretch or extent of something: a reach of woodland. |
| 26. | Also called pound. a level portion of a canal, between locks. |
| 27. | Nautical. a point of sailing in which the wind is within a few points of the beam, either forward of the beam (close reach), directly abeam (beam reach), or abaft the beam (broad reach). |
| 28. | the pole connecting the rear axle of a wagon to the transverse bar or bolster over the front axle supporting the wagon bed. |
| 29. | a straight portion of a river between two bends. |