Synonyms:
achieve, accomplish, attain, reach
Meaning: to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
Synonyms:
reach, hit, attain
Meaning: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
Usage examples
But much matters to what we may attain.
If we would attain happiness, We must first attain helpfulness.
You can never attain freedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise.
He exerted every power to attain it, and used the means at his disposal.
Noble ideas, although rare and difficult to attain, are not naturally fugitive.
Too much has still been done to recede, too little to attain your end; you must therefore proceed.
But now I see again how foolish I was, for you can attain any position you like by your intellect and talent.
Indeed, it seems necessary that a man should have "run away" at least once, in order afterward to attain eminence.
What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not succeed there still remains the resource of tears.
Nor could it be supposed, at all times, in every man's power to attain every kind of mental more than of exterior beauty.