réussir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- arrive verb To reach a place after travelling.
- make out verb To kiss and embrace someone for a sustained period, in a romantic or passionate way.
- manage verb To be in charge of running something, such as a business, team, or project.
- obtain verb To get or acquire something, often through effort or a formal process.
- pass verb To move from one place, position, or state to another.
- succeed verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.
Senses
réussir is used for these senses in English:
- arrive (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
- go a long way (idiomatic) To achieve considerable success.
- make it To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous.
- make out (now, chiefly, US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.). [from 17th c.]
- pass (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- succeed (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
arrive — full definition
- verb To reach a place after travelling.
- verb To reach a certain moment, stage, or level of success.
make out — full definition
- verb To kiss and embrace someone for a sustained period, in a romantic or passionate way.
- verb To manage to see, hear or read something that is faint or unclear.
- verb To claim or suggest that something is the case, usually unfairly or falsely.
- verb To write out a cheque, form or document, especially by filling in a name.