v. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass.v. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.v. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.v. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.v. To overtake.v. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.verb-intransitive. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.verb-intransitive. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.n. Attainment.