achieve
verb
[ əˈtʃiːv ]
• successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective or result) by effort, skill, or courage.
• "he achieved his ambition to become a press photographer"
Similar:
attain,
reach,
arrive at,
realize,
carry off,
bring off,
pull off,
bring about,
accomplish,
carry through,
fulfil,
execute,
perform,
engineer,
carry out,
bring to fruition,
conclude,
complete,
finish,
consummate,
earn,
win,
gain,
find,
establish,
acquire,
obtain,
procure,
come by,
get,
secure,
clinch,
seize,
wrest,
hook,
net,
wrap up,
polish off,
bag,
wangle,
swing,
effectuate,
reify,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘complete successfully’): from Old French achever ‘come or bring to a head’, from a chief ‘to a head’.
