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achieve
English
Alternative forms
- atchieve (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English achieven, acheven, from Anglo-Norman achever, Old French achever, achiever et al., apparently from Late Latin *accapp?re, present active infinitive of *accapp?, from ad (“to”) + caput (“head”) + -? (verbal suffix), or alternatively a construction based on Old French chief (“head”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish acabar, French achever.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??t?i?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Verb
achieve (third-person singular simple present achieves, present participle achieving, simple past and past participle achieved)
- (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish. [from 14th c.]
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- 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.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully. [14th-18th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1601-1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II-v
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
- c. 1601-1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II-v
- (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out. [14th-16th c.]
- (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing). [from 15th c.]
- 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Seculare. for the Year 1700
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
- c. 1603-1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, II-i
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
Synonyms
- accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplish
Derived terms
- achievable
- achievement
- achiever
- overachieve
- underachieve
Translations
Further reading
- achieve at OneLook Dictionary Search
- achieve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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fullbring
English
Alternative forms
- fulbring
Etymology
From Middle English fulbringen, fulbrengen, equivalent to full- +? bring. Cognate with Dutch volbrengen (“to accomplish”), German vollbringen (“to accomplish, complete”).
Verb
fullbring (third-person singular simple present fullbrings, present participle fullbringing, simple past and past participle fullbrought)
- (transitive, archaic) To accomplish; bring about completely; complete; finish; achieve.
- 1859, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly: Volume 4:
- What the goose but thought, that the swan fullbrought; […]
- 1960, Janus:
- […] meaning 'to complete, to bring to a close, to execute (the preparation of ointments), to finish (metalwork), to fullbring'. Hence the title of the Book of Wisdom means, that it gives the necessary advice to complete and fulfill […]
- 1859, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly: Volume 4:
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