attain

attain has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
• v. t.. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
• v. t.. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
• v. t.. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
• v. t.. To overtake.
• v. t.. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
• v. i.. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
• v. i.. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
• n.. Attainment.
• v.. 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"
• v.. reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
• v.. find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"