Definitions for reaches

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reaches reach

Spelling: [reech]

IPA: /ritʃ/

Reaches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in reaches (aceehrs).

Definitions for reaches

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 reaches

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

Examples for reaches

To us, in those years, Europe seemed almost as remote and unreachable as the moon.

Shakespeare here justifies the claim on his behalf to be placed alone and unreachable.

He was “unreachable” and believed to be living in Jakarta, Indonesia, according to the Grosseto court clerk.

Calabro is unreachable in protective custody and has no blog of his own with which to respond.

The real, unknown part of myself, my unreachable soul, is in your eyes.

Rather one is pushed from behind and drawn from in front to an ever unreachable goal.

We may yearn for them but they are unreachable now, left in a past that seems almost to belong to a distant planet.

The phone is again off and unreachable, meaning investigators cannot trace its location.

I was aware of being wounded in some far, unreachable place.

Despite repeated attempts, the army was unreachable for comment.