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Definition of Attain
1. Verb. To gain with effort. "She achieved her goal despite setbacks"
Specialized synonyms: Score, Get To, Make, Progress To, Reach, Begin, Come To, Strike, Culminate, Compass, Average, Finagle, Manage, Wangle
Generic synonyms: Bring Home The Bacon, Come Through, Deliver The Goods, Succeed, Win
Derivative terms: Accomplishment, Achievable, Achievement, Achiever, Attainable, Attainment
2. Verb. Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level. "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
Generic synonyms: Arrive, Come, Get
Specialized synonyms: Max Out, Break Even
Derivative terms: Attainment
3. Verb. Find unexpectedly. "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"
Generic synonyms: Find, Regain
Derivative terms: Discovery, Discovery
4. Verb. Reach a destination, either real or abstract. "They attain the hill"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
Entails: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Catch Up, Scale, Surmount, Access, Get At, Bottom Out, Peak, Top Out, Breast, Summit, Top, Make, Find, Culminate, Come Through, Get Through, Ground, Run Aground
Related verbs: Make
Derivative terms: Attainment
Definition of Attain
1. v. t. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
2. v. i. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
3. n. Attainment.
Definition of Attain
1. Verb. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Attain
1. to gain or achieve by mental or physical effort [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Attain
1. 1. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach. "If by any means they might attain to Phenice." (Acts xxvii. 12) "Nor nearer might the dogs attain." (Sir W. Scott) "To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber." (Cowper) "Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this." (J. R. Green) 2. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind. "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it." (Ps. Cxxxix. 6) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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