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Definition: Achieve |
AchieveVerb1. To gain with effort: "she achieved her goal despite setbacks.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "achieve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Achieve \A*chieve"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Achieved; present participle verb or noun Achieving.]. (references) |
Synonyms: AchieveSynonyms: accomplish (v), attain (v), reach (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Action | Verb: do, perform, execute; achieve; (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play. |
Completion | Verb: effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect, complete; elaborate. |
End | Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle. |
Greatness | Phrase: a maximis ad minima; " greatness knows itself"; " mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed "; minimum decet libere cui multum licet; " some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them ". |
Production | Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) She married me to achieve insecurity and you're trying to take it away from her. She won't thank you for that (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment; writing credit: David Mercer) And then one day, my wife turned into this remarkable creature that could sit on the end of a broom stick and take off. She could actually achieve flight (See No Evil, Hear No Evil; writing credit: Earl Barret; Arne Sultan) I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) The path that leads to what we truly desire is long and difficult, but only by following that path do we achieve our goal (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) | |
Lyrics | More determined to achieve my final goal ("I Am Woman"; performing artist: Helen Reddy) There are miracles in life I must achieve (I Believe I Can Fly; performing artist: R. Kelly) Is easy to achieve (Greatest Love Of All; performing artist: Whitney Houston) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | Patience will achieve more than force. |
| Our patience will achieve more than our force. | |
Georg Hegel | Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. |
Georg Wilhelm Hegel | Only the modern city offers the mind the grounds on which it can achieve awareness of itself. |
James Allen | To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. |
Marquis De Vauvenargues | To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. |
Tertullian | Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | And that union, to attain which the burghers of the Middle Ages, with their miserable highways, required centuries, the modern proletarians, thanks to railways, achieve in a few years. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another Agree to this Covenant of the League of Nations. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Anyone can see with his eyes open that our path will be difficult and also long, but if we persevere together as we did in the two world wars - though not, alas, in the interval between them - I cannot doubt that we shall achieve our common purpose in the end. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | However, most of these attempts result in failure to achieve long-term abstinence. (references) | |
This means the abuser must use more heroin to achieve the same intensity or effect. (references) | ||
Unusual remedies and approaches to cancer treatment often achieve public notoriety. (references) | ||
Business | By doing so they aim to achieve a competitive advantage against competitors in both industries. (references) | |
But to achieve investments, Ukraine needs to reform the legal environment that regulates this industry. (references) | ||
The electrotechnical industry went through a difficult development to achieve its current, stable position. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Turkey | European refugees are given temporary residence permits by the Government, renewable until they achieve resettlement or a durable solution. (references) |
Argentina | Public university study is free; however, in response to a sharpening financial crisis, the federal Government has cut deeply public spending to achieve a balanced budget. (references) | |
Czech Republic | Some critics have argued that complete registration at the second tier will be more difficult to attain given the 10-year observation period and the doubling in the number of adherents required to achieve second tier registration. (references) | |
Discrimination | Indonesia | An amendment to the Constitution adopted during 2000 introduced the possibility of affirmative action to achieve fair and equal treatment; however, some activists believe that because the amendment does not mention men or women specifically, it would not adequately protect women. (references) |
Economic History | Malaysia | Malaysia hopes to achieve a penetration rate of 10% by 2005. (references) |
Bangladesh | Efforts to achieve Bangladesh's macroeconomic goals have been problematic. (references) | |
Human Rights | Costa Rica | In 1996 the Supreme Court's Constitutional Chamber issued an order to the San Sebastian detention facility in San Jose, giving the institution 1 year to achieve minimally acceptable conditions for its prisoners. (references) |
Pakistan | There continued to be charges that magistrates and police, under pressure from provincial and federal officials to achieve high conviction rates, persuade detainees to plead guilty without informing them of the consequences. (references) | |
China | Reports of torture increase during periodic "strike hard" campaigns in which police are encouraged to achieve quick results against crime, and such reports increased during the current "strike-hard" campaign, which began in April. (references) | |
Minorities | India | Dalits (formerly called untouchables) are viewed by many Hindus as separate from or "below" the caste system; nonetheless, they too are expected to follow their dharma if they hope to achieve caste in a future life. (references) |
Central African Republic | As a result of hirings and firings following President Patasse's 1993 election, Yakomas no longer hold a disproportionate number of positions in the civil service, but the armed forces still are being restructured to achieve greater ethnic balance. (references) | |
Ukraine | Demonstrations held on the anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars during the year were smaller and less politicized; however, Crimean-Tatar leaders continued to call for changes in the electoral law that would allow them to achieve greater representation in the Crimean legislature. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWEDEN | Sweden uses both monetary and fiscal policy to achieve economic goals. (references) |
GERMANY | Current policies seek to achieve a balanced (consolidated) budget by 2004. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Before October 7, attempts to achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict continued. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kenya | The Government and police continued to harass and disrupt meetings of the MWM, an organization backed by a coalition of both opposition and dissident KANU M.P.'s that promotes opposition unity to achieve political and constitutional reform. (references) |
Malaysia | In 1998 the Minister of National Unity and Social Development stated that the country would not achieve its goal of 30 percent female representation in the Government by 2005. The Minister stated that the 1998 rate of participation (defined as the percentage of female representatives in Parliament and in state assemblies) was 6 to 7 percent. (references) | |
Trade | India | Units engaged in trading activities in a SEZ must achieve a turnover of USD1 million in 5 years. (references) |
Travel | Kenya | The U.S. exporter should keep certain factors in mind to achieve maximum success. (references) |
Vietnam | American businesspeople typically assume that "win-win" deals are common and relatively easy to achieve. (references) | |
Kenya | It is not sufficient to merely label a product in conformity with national requirements to achieve successful market penetration. (references) | |
Women | South Africa | The Office of the Status of Women reported in 2000 that "although gender discrimination has been removed from labor laws, this has not been sufficient to achieve equality in women's participation in the paid labor force." According to data supplied in 2000 by employers with 50 or more employees, women hold 13 percent of all top management positions, 20 percent of all senior management positions, and 43 percent of professional and middle management positions. (references) |
Worker Rights | Malaysia | If conciliation fails to achieve settlement, the Minister has the power to refer the dispute to the Industrial Court. (references) |
Estonia | According to EAKL sources, legal occupational health and safety standards are satisfactory in theory; however, they are extremely difficult to achieve in practice. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Pervez Musharraf | Well, the duration of the operation is dependent on achievement of objectives. So any military operation has to identify clearly what the military objectives are, and one has to achieve those objectives before bringing the operation to an end. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | To achieve success will require both boldness in setting our sights and caution in steering our way on an uncharted course. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For the hour and the day and the time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without hatred--not without difference of opinion, but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | This Nation has the resources and the capability to achieve our energy goals if its Government has the will to proceed, and I think we do. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I hope the Congress will enact legislation this year that will achieve this goal. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But we did not achieve what we wished, and serious mistakes were made in trying to do so. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Tonight, we work to achieve another victory, a victory over tyranny and savage aggression. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We are working to achieve a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Only by acknowledging poor performance can we ever help schools to achieve. |
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| "Achieve" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.84% of the time. "Achieve" is used about 6,761 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 90.84% | 6,141 | 1,586 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.16% | 619 | 10,440 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,761 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "achieve": achieve air superiority ♦ achieve an end ♦ achieve fame ♦ achieve one's aim ♦ achieve scale ♦ effort to achieve peace ♦ some achieve greatness. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "achieve": achieve-oriented. | |
Ending with "achieve": hard-to-achieve, over-achieve, under-achieve. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "achieve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verwerf (acquire, attain, get, obtain), vervaardig (act, carry out, do, fabricate, make, manufacture, perform), presteer (accomplish, attain, get, reach), pleeg (act, carry out, do, make, perform), maak (act, carry out, do, make, perform), doen (act, carry out, do, make, perform, to do), bereik (accomplish, attain, get, range, reach), behaal (accomplish, acquire, attain, earn, gain, get, obtain, reach, win), begaan (accomplish, act, carry out, do, keep, make, observe, perform, tread, walk, walk upon), bedrywe (accomplish, act, carry out, do, keep, make, observe, perform), bedryf (accomplish, act, carry out, certificate, diploma, do, document, enterprise, handicraft, keep, make, observe, occupation, perform, profession, trade). (various references) | |
Albanian | arrij (aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch), realizoj (actualize, attain, execute, fulfil, pull off, realize), kryej (accomplish, act, carry out, carry through, commit, despatch, discharge, dispatch, do, effect, effectuate, execute, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, perform, process, prosecute, put through, wage), bëj (act, beget, carry into effect, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, commit, create, do, effect, effectuate, fabricate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perform, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wage, wreak). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاز (attain, be successful, beat, defeat, gain, get, obtain, overcome, prevail, succeed, triumph over, win, win out), نجز (accomplish, be executed, compass, complete, do, encompass, execute, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, gain, get hold of, get on, implement, negotiate, perfect, perform, polish off, pull off, put across, realize), نجح (arrive, bring off, click, flourish, get on, get through, go off well, make, make a go of it, make efficient, make good, make out, make the grade, manage, pan, pan out, pass, prosper, pull off, pull through, succeed, thrive, triumph, win out, work it), حقق (attain, check, consummate, effectuate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, probe, produce, quest, realize, search closely, see, slate, take, work out), إكتسب (acquire, develop, gain smb. over), أحرز (acquire, attain, get hold of, obtain), أتم (accomplish, cap, compass, consummate, fulfil, fulfill, negotiate, perfect, realize, round off), بلغ هدفا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | реализирам (accomplish, actualize, put into effect, realize), осъществявам (accomplish, carry into effect, carry through, embody, fulfil, fulfill, implement, incarnate, instrument, materialize, put into effect, realize), постигам (accomplish, acquire, come, compass, effect, effectuate, get, notch up, reach, realize, secure, turn, turn in, work out), извършвам (act, bring about, effect, execute, perform, pull, put through, transact, turn off), достигам (abut upon, acquire, carry down, come, come by, come down, fetch, gain, greet, grow, hit, reach, scale, turn, win). (various references) | |
Catalan | fer (act, carry out, do, make, perform, to do, to make). (various references) | |
Chinese | 达到 (Achieved, Achieving, Attainment), 達 (attain, clear, dignity, inform, notify, pass through, reach, realize). (various references) | |
Czech | skonèit (be over, be through, call it a day, close, come to an end, complete, conclude, dismiss, end up, fetch up, find, finish), dosáhnout èeho. (various references) | |
Danish | aflægge (act, carry out, do, make, perform), lave (act, carry out, do, make, perform), gøre (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Dutch | doorvoeren (accomplish, act out, apply, carry through, practice), bewerkstelligen (accomplish, act out, carry through, produce). (various references) | |
Esperanto | plenumi (accomplish, keep, observe, perform), elfari (accomplish, finish), efektivigi (accomplish). (various references) | |
Faeroese | náa (accomplish, attain, get, reach), gera (act, activate, build, carry out, cause, construct, do, form, get, give rise to, make, perform, shape, take action), fullføra (accomplish, keep, observe, perform), fáa (accomplish, acquire, attain, be able, be able to, get, harvest, have, obtain, provide, reach, receive), útvega (acquire, attain, employ, get, hire, obtain, provide, recruit). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناءل شدن به (Reach), کسب موفقیت کردن , تحصیل کردن (Earn, Get, Procure, Study, Win), انجام دادن (Accomplish, Administer, Complete, Consummate, Do, Implement, Pay, Perform), رسیدن (Accede, Aim, Amount, Arrive, Attain, Come, Gain, Get, Land, Receive, Strand), دست یافتن (Accede, Attain), بانجام رسانیدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | saavuttaa (accomplish, acquire, attain, catch up with, gain, get, obtain, overtake, reach, win). (various references) | |
French | atteindre (accomplish, run across), accomplir (accomplish), réaliser (accomplish, act out, activate, actualize), parvenir (accomplish, run across), achever. (various references) | |
Frisian | oanmeitsje (act, carry out, do, make, perform), dwaen (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
German | leisten (accomplish, afford, do, effect, goof, groins, inguinal, keep, last, ledges, manage, observe, perform, put out, render, to achieve, to afford), erzielen (accomplish, achievement, arrive at, attain, effect, fetch, get, make, obtain, reach, realize, score, secure, set, to obtain, touchdown), erringen (acquire, attain, capture, earn, gain, get, obtain, set, to score, win), erreichen (accomplish, arrive at, attain, catch, contact, gain, get, get at, get to, make, obtain, reach, to achieve, to attain, to obtain, to reach, touch, win), erlangen (accomplish, acquire, attain, gain, get, obtain, reach, securable, to acquire, to attain). (various references) | |
Greek | κατορθώνω (attain, effect, manage, put over, succeed in). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפעול (accomplish, act, do, function, influence, make, perform, work), להשיג (accomplish, acquire, angle, attain, catch hold of, come by, comprehend, fetch, gain, get hold of, grasp, land, obtain, procure, question, reach, secure), להשלים (accomplish, carry through, come to terms, complete, finish, perfect, round off, submit, supplement, top off, top up), לבצע (act, carry out, commit, do, drive, execute, perform, render), השיג (reach). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elér (accomplish, attain, gain, get, get at, get hold of, got, made, overtake, reach, to attain, to chalk up, to come up with, to get, to make, to realize). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ná til (accomplish, attain, get, reach), ná í (accomplish, attain, get, reach), gera (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggolkan (make a goal), menggayuh, mencetak (cast, print), mencapai (attain, gain, reach, realize, see: capai), capai (attain, reach, tired, weary). (various references) | |
Irish | déantús (act, make, perform), déanamh (act, make, perform). (various references) | |
Italian | compiere (accomplish, carry out, carry through, come true, complete, discharge, do, effect, encompass, end, exert, fill, finish, fulfil, fulfill, have, implement, keep, make, observe, perform), eseguire (accomplish, act, carry out, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, give, keep, observe, perform), fare (act, be, build, carry out, construct, do, execute, fashion, get, go in for, have, kind, make, manner, perform, produce, put in, shall, should, sort, species, to do, to make, type), commettere (act, carry out, commit, do, make, perform), arrivare (accomplish, arrive, attain, be reduced to, come, come about, end up, get, go as far as, go so far as, happen, occur, reach, receive, roll in, roll up, to arrive). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遂げる (to accomplish, to achieve, to carry out), 果たす (to accomplish, to achieve, to carry out, to fulfill). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | でかす (to accomplish, to achieve, to commit, to do), せいかをおさめる (to achieve success), かちえる (to achieve, to attain, to gain, to win), ことをなしとげる (to achieve a task), やりとおす (to achieve, to carry through, to complete), よいせいせきをあげる (to achieve satisfactory results), はたす (to accomplish, to achieve, to carry out, to fulfill), とげる (to accomplish, to achieve, to carry out). (various references) | |
Korean | 달성하십시요 (Accomplish, Attain). (various references) | |
Malay | mencapai (accomplish, attain, get, reach), capai (accomplish, attain, get, reach). (various references) | |
Manx | cooilleeney (achievement, acquit, acquittal, avenge, compensate, compensation, consummate, consummation, execute, fulfil, fulfilment, punishment, satisfaction, satisfy, vengeance). (various references) | |
Norwegian | gjøre (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Papiamen | atkirí (acquire, attain, get, obtain), alkansá (accomplish, attain, get, reach), optené (acquire, attain, get, obtain), haya (acquire, attain, find, get, have, obtain, receive), hasi (act, carry out, do, make, perform), haña (acquire, attain, find, get, have, obtain, receive), cumpli (accomplish, keep, observe, perform). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achieveay.(various references) | |
Polish | zrealizować (accomplish, act out, carry through), wykonać (accomplish, keep, observe, perform), uzyskać (accomplish, attain, get, reach), urzeczywistniać (accomplish, act out, carry through), spełnić (accomplish, keep, observe, perform), robić (act, carry out, do, make, perform), osiągać (accomplish, attain, get, reach), czynić (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Portuguese | realizar (accomplish, actualize, attain, celebrate, consummate, create, do, effect, execute, fulfil, fulfill, materialize, perform, produce, realize, render, transact, work out), alcançar (accomplish, acquire, arrive, attain, catch up, come, compass, comprehend, earn, fetch, gain, get, get around, go, obtain, overtake, reach, reach for, run down, touch, understand). (various references) | |
Romanian | face (act, anoint, appoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, commit, compose, conclude, cook, cost, create, cut, dispense, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perform, perpetrate, persuade, prepare, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield). (various references) | |
Russian | достигать (approached the, aproached the, arrive, attain, gain, get, overreach, reach, reached, reaching, regain, scored). (various references) | |
Scottish | ruig (accomplish, arrive at, attain, extend to, get, half castrated ram, reach, so far as, to, until), dèan (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | postići (accomplish, be successful, befall, roll up, run up, score), ostvariti (accomplish, actualize, bring about, carry out, compass, cotton on, effect, effectuate, materialize, objectify, perform, realize), izvojevati (pull out, win), dostići (catch up, come to, make, reach). (various references) | |
Spanish | realizar (accomplish, act out, actualize, answer, attain, bring into being, bring off, carry into effect, carry out, carry through, do, enable, enforce, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, level, perform, produce, realize, tackle, take on), alcanzar (accomplish, acquire, add up to, amount, arrive at, attain, carry, catch up, catch up with, come up with, do, gain, get, get at, hit, jockey, last out, make up on, obtain, overhaul, overtake, reach, throw in, throw out, touch, win, win through), procurarse (acquire, attain, buy, get, obtain, procure, purchase, take over), perpetrar (accomplish, act, carry out, commit, do, keep, make, observe, perform, perpetrate), obtener (acquire, attain, bring off, come by, derive, earn, elicit, extract, get, get in, have, jump on, land, obtain, poll, procure, receive, secure, take out), lograr (accomplish, attain, bring off, come off, engineer, get, get off, jockey, land, obtain, pick up, pull off, reach, thread, throw out, touch, vanquish, win, wish, work), hacer (accomplish, act, administer, advance, ask, be, bestow, bind, bring, bring in, build, carry out, cause, come, commit, compose, compound, create, cut, cut out, do, draw, drive, drop, effect, emit, enter into, enter up, fabricate, force, form, generate, get, get out, give, go at, hole, keep, knock out, lay, lean, level, light, live, live through, lumber, lure on, make, make into, make up, making, observe, offer, pack, pass, pay, perform, perpetrate, place, poke, prosecute, pull, punch, put, put forward, put out, put up, render, set off, tackle, take, take on, think up, throw, throw in, throw out, throw up, tie, to do, to make, to make into, travel, turn out, wet, work, work out), fabricar (act, brew, carry out, do, fabricate, falsify, knock out, make, make up, manufacture, perform, produce, throw in, turn out), consequir (acquire, attain, get, obtain), conseguir (accomplish, acquire, attain, bring off, come by, compass, enlist, gain, get, get hold of, getting, land, obtain, procure, pull off, purchase, put across, put over, score, succeed, walk in, win), cometer (accomplish, act, carry out, commit, do, foul, go at, keep, make, observe, perform). (various references) | |
Sranan | meki (act, carry out, do, make, perform), du (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppnå (attain, compass, reach), ernå (accomplish, attain, get, reach). (various references) | |
Tagalog | gawín (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Turkish | almak (accept, accomplish, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, put on, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak), yapmak (accomplish, acquit oneself, act, architect, build, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, execute, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go over, go through, have, implement, land, make, perform, perpetrate, ply, practice, practise, produce, profess, put on, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave), ulaşmak (aggregate, approach, arrive, attain, come, come at, come to, come up to, come up with, effect, figure out at, gain, get at, hit, live up to, reach, win), meydana getirmek (bring about, bring forth, bring to pass, compose, create, do, effect, effectuate, generate, spawn, turn out), kazanmak (acquire, attain, be in pocket, bear the bell, carry away the bell, carry off, clean up, clear, come by, draw, earn, gain, garner, gather, get, get out of, land, net, obtain, pull off, purchase, realize, reap, take, win), gerçekleştirmek (actualize, carry out, carry through, effect, effectuate, execute, follow out, follow through, make real, materialize, practice, practise, put into practice, realize, substantiate, verify), etmek (act, add up to, aggregate, carry out, cost, do, get, have, make, pay, perform, practice, practise, render, say, send, step, subject, take, tender, total), erişmek (attain, compass, range, reach), elde etmek (acquire, attain, carry, clear, come off, conquer, gain, get, have, make, obtain, procure, purchase, secure, suck, take, win), başarmak (accomplish, arrive, bring home the bacon, bring off, carry out, carry through, click, come through, compass, conquer, contrive, get things done, get through, hit the mark, make out, negotiate, overcome, pan out, pan out well, prosper, pull off, sew up, succeed, swing, tackle, win through). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | успішно виконувати, досягати (accomplish, acquire, amount, attain, compass, gain ground, measure up, obtain, reach), добиватися (aim, attain, canvass, obtain, try for, woo, work out, work up). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwneud (act, do, make, perform), gorffen (complete, conclude, finish), cyrraedd (accomplish, amount, arrive at, attain, get, reach), cyflawni (accomplish, commit, fulfill, perform), cwblhau (accomplish, complete, finish, fulfill). (various references) | |
Yucatec | metik (act, carry out, do, make, perform), mentik (act, carry out, do, make, perform), beetik (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
Zulu | -enza (act, carry out, do, make, perform). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adtigerit, adtigimus, adtingas, adtingebat, adtingerent, adtingit, conciliare, consecuta, consecutam, consecuti, consecutus, consequamur, consequantur, consequaris, consequebantur, consequens, consequenti, consequeretur, consequeris, consequi, consequitur, facere, perficio, pervenire. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | achever. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "achieve": achieved, achievement, achievements, achiever, achievers, achieves. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "achieve": outachieve, overachieve, underachieve. (additional references) | |
Words containing "achieve": nonachievement, nonachievements, outachieved, outachieves, overachieved, overachievement, overachievements, overachiever, overachievers, overachieves, superachiever, superachievers, unachieved, underachieved, underachievement, underachievements, underachiever, underachievers, underachieves. (additional references) | |
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"Achieve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acheieve, acheive, acheve, achie, achiee, achiev, achinese, achive, achived, achives, ahive, archeive, Archief, archieve, auchlee, echieve, Machevo, Machiavel, Schiavio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-v" | |
-2 letters: cavie, chive, heave. | |
-3 letters: ache, cave, chia, each, eave, eche, have, hive, vice. | |
-4 letters: ace, ave, cee, chi, eve, hae, hic, hie, ice, ich, vac, vee, via, vie. | |
-5 letters: ae, ah, ai, eh, ha, he, hi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-v" | |
+1 letter: achieved, achiever, achieves, chivaree. | |
+2 letters: achievers, chevalier, chivareed, chivarees, echeveria. | |
+3 letters: achievable, cavefishes, chevaliers, echeverias, outachieve, unachieved. | |
+4 letters: achievement, chivareeing, hyperactive, outachieved, outachieves, overachieve. | |
+5 letters: achievements, czarevitches, hyperactives, overachieved, overachiever, overachieves, overemphatic, overreaching, underachieve. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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