Achieve

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise. Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.

2. To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. Some are born great, some achieve greatness. Shak. Thou hast achieved our liberty. Milton.

3. To finish; to kill. [Obs.] Shak.

Synonyms: accomplish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute; perform; realize; obtain. See Accomplish.