Attain
- n. Attainment.
- v. t. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
- v. t. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
- v. t. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
- v. t. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
- v. t. To overtake.
- v. t. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
- v. i. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
- v. i. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.