Definitions for achieve

achieve a·chieve

Spelling: [uh-cheev]
IPA: /əˈtʃiv/

Achieve is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in achieve (aceehiv).

Definitions for achieve

verb (used with object)

  1. to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish:
  2. to get or attain by effort; gain; obtain:

verb (used without object)

  1. to bring about an intended result; accomplish some purpose or effect.

Origin of achieve

1275-1325; Middle English acheven Old French achever to finish, from phrase a chef to (the) head (i.e., to conclusion). See chief

Examples for achieve

So however detailed the statistics of the battlefield are, they cannot achieve the goal.

Following this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, the way to achieve world peace is to give everyone atomic bombs.

We shall not achieve it immediately—but we still shall strive.

Alexander Setonius, a Scot, was first of the moderns to achieve it.

So, how do we achieve such equality in the U.S. and other parts of the world?

"And when you achieve the fine loaf, you may revel in home-made rolls," I answered.

Direct funds away from practices, policies, and programs that consistently fail to achieve measurable outcomes.

They achieve repartee the brilliance of which dazzles him to contemptible silence.

It seems like you had to make the Before trilogy first in order to achieve something like Boyhood.

As already seen, we ask for difficulties to conquer, successes to achieve.

Word Value for achieve
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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