achieveverb [ T ]
uk/əˈtʃiːv/us/əˈtʃiːv/B1 to succeed in finishing something or reaching an aim, especially after a lot of work or effort:
The government's training policy, he claimed, was achieving its objectives.
She finally achieved her ambition to visit South America.
I've been working all day, but I feel as if I've achieved nothing.
See also
underachieve
More examples
- We've achieved some marvellous results with this new drug.
- He has already achieved his main ambition in life - to become wealthy.
- I've been working all day, but I feel as if I've achieved nothing.
- She was so desperate for success that she'd do anything to achieve it.
- We've set ourselves a series of goals to achieve by the end of the month.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- be a hard/tough act to follow idiom
- bear
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- have your/its moments idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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