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v. To perform or carry out with success; accomplish. See Synonyms at perform.

v. To attain with effort or despite difficulty. See Synonyms at reach.

verb-intransitive. To accomplish something successfully; perform at a standard or above standard level: skills needed to achieve in school.

v. 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.

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

v. To finish; to kill.

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.

v. to gain with effort

"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."

achieved    achieves    achieving   

succeed    bring home the bacon    deliver the goods    win    come through   

come to    progress to    culminate    finagle    score    manage    compass    begin    reach    strike   

achievement    achiever   

realize    obtain    execute    accomplish    effect    complete    fulfill    perform    win    finish   

Eve    Kleve    Neave    Rajiv    Steve    aggrieve    aleve    believe    bereave    cleave   

continous    frequency-dependent    life-affirming    unsorted    hardly-won    nonpositive    pro-active    self-talk    take-up    inotropic