Thesaurus: attain

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1. v. t. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
2. v. t. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
3. v. t. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
4. v. t. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
5. v. t. To overtake.
6. v. t. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
7. v. i. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
8. v. i. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
9. n. Attainment.
10. v. to gain with effort
11. v. reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
12. v. find unexpectedly