achieveverb/əˈt͡ʃiːv/

• 1

  To carry out or conclude (something, as a task) successfully; to accomplish.

  • to achieve one’s goals
  • Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.
• 2

  To gain or obtain (a desired objective, result, etc.) through effort or skill; to succeed in attaining (an objective, result, etc.); to win.

  • And the frenche men entred in a mong the thyckeſt of them⸝ and ſpared no more to flee thẽ [them]⸝ than they had ben dogges⸝ and ſurely they had good cauſe ſo to do. For if yͤ flemynges had achyued the priſe ouer them⸝ they had bene ſerued of the ſame ſauce.
  • VVhy ſome are borne great, ſome atchieue greatneſſe, and ſome haue greatneſſe throvvne vpon them.
• 3

  To obtain (a physical thing); to get.

  • Mon[tano]. But good Leiutenant, is your Generall vviu'd? / [Michael] Caſ[sio]. Moſt fortunately, he hath atchieu'd a maide, / That parragons deſcription, and vvild fame: […]
  • [U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.
• 4

  obsoleteTo end or finish (something); to terminate; (specifically, military) to win (a battle or war).

  • So all theſe thynges tyme acheueth and burieth, but onely trouth, the whiche (of the tyme and of all thynge that is in the tyme) triumpheth, Neyther to be fauoured of the good, nor to be perſecuted of the ylle, may be, but that ſomtyme trouthe may be ſtopped and hydde, but whan it is diſpleaſed, and wyl diſpleaſe, than at the laſte ſhe cometh to a good porte, and taketh londe.
  • Bid them atchieue me, and then ſell my bones. / Good God, vvhy ſhould they mock good fellovvs thus? / The man that once did ſell the Lions skin, / VVhile the beaſt liued, vvas kild vvith hunting him.
• 5

  To attain a goal; to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance; (generally) to make an effort; strive.

  • He could really achieve in school if he worked hard.
  • [He] Fights Dragon-like, and does atcheeue as ſoone / As dravv his Svvord: […]
• 6

  archaicliteraryFollowed by to: to attain a certain position, status, etc.

  • Spitz was a practised fighter. From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all manner of dogs and achieved to mastery over them.
• 7

  obsoleteTo come to an end; conclude, end; also, to result, to turn out; or (uncommon) to be affected by fate in a certain way.

  • For god knoweth⸝ and ſo doth all other good townes⸝ that ye be ĩ [in] the ryght of this warre. Wherfore all your buſynes ſhall acheue the better.
  • The goddis unmortal haue made al thinges cõmunicable to mẽ mortal, except imortalite: ⁊ therfore they be callid ĩmortal, bicauſe they neuer dy, ⁊ we be called mortal and fallyng, bicauſe we all take an ende. […] O my frende Cincinate, thus acheueth the perſones, but the goodes neuer.