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attain
attain is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
- 2transitive verb
To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
- 3transitive verb
To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
- 4transitive verb
To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
- 5transitive verb
To overtake.
- 6transitive verb
To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
- 7intransitive verb
To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
- 8intransitive verb
To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
- 9noun
Attainment.
- 10verb
reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
"The thermometer hit 100 degrees"
"This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
- 11verb
reach a destination, either real or abstract
"We hit Detroit by noon"
"The water reached the doorstep"
- 12verb
find unexpectedly
"the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"
"she struck a goldmine"
- 13verb
to gain with effort
"she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
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