achieve

1. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.intransitive

2. (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.Examples: "You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it."; "Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics."; "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."Synonyms: accomplish, compass, fulfill, realizetransitive

3. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.Examples: "Full many Countreyes they did overronne, From the uprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard adventures did atchieve […]"obsoletetransitive

4. (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.Examples: "I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West."; "Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962."; "Some are born great, some achieve greatness."Synonyms: attain, obtain, compass, get one's hands ontransitive

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.intransitiveobsolete

6. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).Examples: "He hath achieved a maid That paragons description."; "[U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them."; "Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved."literarytransitive