alcançar — meaning in English

English meaning

• attain verb To succeed in reaching or achieving something through effort.
• outreach noun Efforts by an organization to connect with and provide services to people in the community.
• reach verb To stretch out an arm or hand toward something in order to touch or grasp it.

Senses

alcançar is used for these senses in English:

• attain (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
• catch up (ambitransitive) To reach something that had been ahead.
• come up with (idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
• reach (transitive) 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.
• reach (transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
• reach (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

attain — full definition

1. verb To succeed in reaching or achieving something through effort.
2. noun Something reached or achieved; an accomplishment. (Rare use; usually replaced by "attainment.")

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