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Achieve (Collocations : (Achieve a target, Achieve one's potential,…
Achieve
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achieve something (to succeed in reaching a particular goal, status, or standard, by making an effort for a long time
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Idioms :
To succeed at or overcome a task that is thought (sometimes hyperbolically) to be outside the realm of possibility. People can achieve the impossible if they work together. I felt like I had achieved the impossible when finally I received that promotion last week.
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Word origin :
Middle English (in the sense ‘complete successfully’): from Old French achever ‘come or bring to a head’, from a chief ‘to a head’.
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