reach

/ɹiːt͡ʃ/

verb 17
noun 13
forms 13
phrases 8

verb17

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To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- “I can't quite reach the pepper. Could you pass it to me?”
- The gun was stored in a small box on a high closet shelf, but the boy managed to reach it by climbing on other boxes.
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to get to a place by walking, climbing, traveling or any other kind of effort
- After three years, he reached the position of manager.
- The climbers reached the top of the mountain after a gruelling ten-day hike.
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(India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination.
- The particulars that reach from Eastern Bengal require corroboration. — 1907
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To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- You can only access the inheritance money when you reach the age of 25.
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(slang) To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- What time you reaching tomorrow?
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To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- He reached for a weapon that was on the table.
- He reached for his shoe with his legs.
To stretch out the hand.
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(figurative) To make contact with.
- I tried to reach you all day.
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To strike or touch.
- His bullet reached its intended target.
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To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- his hand reaches the river
- When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.
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To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
- The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide. — 1994
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To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- A few words, lovingly, encouragingly spoken failed to reach her heart. — 1889
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(figurative) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- What will it take for me to reach him?
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To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- Reach for your dreams.
- Reach for the stars!
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To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- When Svend Faelling had promised to do so, saying that he thought himself strong and active enough for the encounter, the Troll reached him a heavy iron bar, and bade him show his strength on that. — 1828
To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
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(no longer used) To understand; to comprehend.
- Do what, sir? I reach you not. — 1612

noun13

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The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- The fruit is beyond my reach.
- to be within reach of cannon shot
The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
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The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended. — 1628
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Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach, interposed. — 1667
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A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- December 2011, Dan Houston, Sailing a classic yacht on the Thames, Classic Boat Magazine Close-hauled past flats at Island Gardens opposite the old Royal Naval College at Greenwich we’d been making more than seven knots over the ground and we came close enough to touch the wall. It had felt like roller-blading – long lee-bowed boards down the reaches of this historic river. They have such great names: Bugsby’s Reach, Gallions [Reach], Fiddler’s [Reach] or the evocative Lower Hope [Reach].
A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
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An extended portion or area of land or water.
- Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies — 2002
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(informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.
The act of stretching or extending; extension.
Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
The distance traversed between tacks.
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The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- They leaped ahead just as Ruth came to the side of the long reach that connected the small pair of front wheels with the huge wheels in the rear. — 1913
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(no longer used) An article to obtain an advantage.
- The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own, under hand, to cross the design. — 1627

forms

raught · reach'd · reached · reacht · retcht · rought · raughtest · reachedst · retchtest · reaching · reaches · reacheth · reachest

Phrases with reach