attain
Verb
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is a type of: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win - attain success or reach a desired goalsubtypes:
- score - get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
- get to, make, progress to, reach - reach a goal
- begin - achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
- come to, strike - attain
- culminate - reach the highest or most decisive point
- compass - bring about; accomplish
- average - achieve or reach on average
- finagle, manage, wangle - achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
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subtypes:
- max out - reach a maximum
- break even - attain a level at which there is neither gain nor loss, as in business, gambling, or a competitive sport
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is a type of: find, regain - come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lostsame as: chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike
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subtypes:
- catch up - reach the point where one should be after a delay
- scale, surmount - reach the highest point of
- access, get at - reach or gain access to
- bottom out - reach the low point
- peak, top out - to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
- breast, summit - reach the summit (of a mountain)
- top - reach or ascend the top of
- make - reach in time
- find - succeed in reaching; arrive at
- culminate - reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- come through, get through - succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
- ground, run aground - hit or reach the ground
verb group: make - reach in time
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