Definitions for reach

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Spelling: [reech]

IPA: /ritʃ/

Reach is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in reach (acehr).

Definitions for reach

noun

1. an act or instance of reaching:
2. the extent or distance of reaching:
3. range of effective action, power, or capacity.
4. a continuous stretch or extent of something:
5. Also called pound. a level portion of a canal, between locks.
6. 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)
7. the pole connecting the rear axle of a wagon to the transverse bar or bolster over the front axle supporting the wagon bed.
8. a straight portion of a river between two bends.

verb (used with object)

1. to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.:
2. to come to or arrive at in some course of progress, action, etc.:
3. to succeed in touching or seizing with an outstretched hand, a pole, etc.:
4. to stretch or hold out; extend:
5. to stretch or extend so as to touch or meet:
6. to establish communication with:
7. to amount to, as in the sum or total:
8. to penetrate to:
9. to succeed in striking or hitting, as with a weapon or missile:
10. to succeed in making contact with, influencing, impressing, interesting, convincing, etc.:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a stretch, as with the hand or arm.
2. to become outstretched, as the hand or arm.
3. to make a movement or effort as if to touch or seize something:
4. to extend in operation or effect:
5. to stretch in space; extend in direction, length, distance, etc.:
6. to extend or continue in time.
7. to get or come to a specified place, person, condition, etc. (often followed by to).
8. to amount (often followed by to):
9. to penetrate:
10. to assert or agree without certainty or sufficient evidence; infer hastily:
11. Nautical. to sail on a reach. to sail with the wind forward of the beam but so as not to require sailing close-hauled.

Origin of reach

before 900; (v.) Middle English rechen, Old English rǣcan (cognate with German reichen, Dutch reiken); (noun) derivative of the v.

Examples for reach

Her heart seemed not easy to reach; her impulses were not inflammable.

When he set out he meant to reach the car and go back to town at once.

He seemed to get a little turned around on the way but managed to reach what might have been presumed to be his destination.

But as he was gone out of reach, no further inquiries were made after him.

Do we critique those women who would modify themselves just to reach those standards?

The first thing they told us was that the traffickers are now using Turkish ports, which are relatively easy to reach from Syria.

Or (horrors) he could reach out to congressional leaders in both parties to pursue bipartisan legislation.

I awaited the arrival of the party, which should reach here this morning.

Hope to reach Israelite Bay to-morrow, as it is only sixteen miles distant.

As a well-known advocate for Baluch rights in Iran, young Iranians reach out to him for advice.