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ottenere — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accomplish verb To succeed in doing or finishing something, especially something difficult.
  • achieve verb To succeed in doing or reaching something, usually after effort.
  • attain verb To succeed in reaching or achieving something through effort.
  • cause noun The thing that makes something happen; the origin of an effect.
  • get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
  • obtain verb To get or acquire something, often through effort or a formal process.
  • procure verb To obtain something, especially through effort or by particular means.
  • secure adj Protected from danger, harm, or loss.
  • source noun The place, person, or thing that something originates from.
  • win verb To come out on top in a contest, game, war, or competition.

Senses

ottenere is used for these senses in English:

  • accomplish (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.
  • achieve (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. [from 14th c.]
  • attain (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
  • cause (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
  • get (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • get (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • procure (transitive) To acquire or obtain.
  • secure To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

achieve — full definition

  1. verb To succeed in doing or reaching something, usually after effort.
  2. verb To do well, especially in school or in a career.

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