achieve

Meaning

Verb

• To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
• To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
• To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
• To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
• To conclude, to turn out.
• To obtain (a material thing).

Related

Similar words

• accomplish, fulfil, fulfill, realize
• conclude, end, finalize, complete
• attain, obtain, get one's hands on

Origin

• From Middle English achieven, acheven, from Anglo-Norman achever, Old French achever, achiever et al., apparently from Late Latin *accappāre, present active infinitive of *accappō, from ad + caput + -ō, or alternatively a construction based on Old French chief. Compare Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish acabar, French achever.