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Synonyms of the word 
ATTAIN → ACCOMPLISH - ACHIEVE - ARRIVE - COME - DISCOVER - FIND - GAIN - GET - HIT - MAKE - REACH - REGAIN - STRIKE - SUCCEED - WINattain- v. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve.
- v. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
- v. (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
- v. (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object,…
- v. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
- v. (obsolete) To overtake.
accomplish- v. (transitive) To finish successfully.
- v. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
- v. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished;…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.
achieve- v. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
- v. (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
- v. (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed…
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
- v. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
arrive- v. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
- v. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame.
- v. (intransitive) To come; said of time.
- v. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
come- v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
- v. (intransitive) To arrive.
- v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
- v. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
- v. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- v. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
- v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- v. (intransitive) Happen.
- v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have a social background.
- v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
- n. (slang) Semen.
- n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
- prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
- interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
- interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
- n. (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form…
discover- v. To find or learn something for the first time.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
- v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
- v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
- v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
find- v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To point out.
- v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
- v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
- n. The act of finding.
gain- prep. (obsolete) Against.
- adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
- adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
- adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
- adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
- adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
- adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
- adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
- n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
- n. What is gained.
- n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- v. (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest,…
- v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
- v. (transitive) To increase.
- v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- v. (transitive) To reach.
- v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
- v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports…
get- v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To receive.
- v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- v. (copulative) To become.
- v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- v. (transitive) To cause to do.
- v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
- v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
- v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
- v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
- v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
- v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
- v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
- v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- v. (transitive) To getter.
- v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
- v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
- v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
- v. (euphemistic) To kill.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- n. Offspring.
- n. Lineage.
- n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- n. Something gained.
- n. (Britain, regional) A git.
- n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
hit- v. (heading, physical) To strike.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
- v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
- v. (heading, games) To make a play.
- v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
- n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
- n. An attack on a location, person or people.
- n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
- n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
- n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
- n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- adj. Designating of a popular song.
- pron. (dialectal) It.
make- v. (transitive, heading) To create.
- v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
- v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- v. To constitute.
- v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
- v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
- v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
- v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
- v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
- v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
- v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
- v. To appoint; to name.
- v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
- v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
- v. To enact; to establish.
- v. To develop into; to prove to be.
- v. To form or formulate in the mind.
- v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
- v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
- v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
- v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
- v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
- n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
- n. How a thing is made; construction.
- n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
- n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
- n. A person's character or disposition.
- n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
- n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
- n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
- n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
- n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
- n. (slang, military) A promotion.
- n. A home-made project.
- n. (basketball) A made basket.
- n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
- n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
reach- v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
- v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
- v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
- v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
- v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
- v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
- v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
- v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
- v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
- v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
- n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
- n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
- n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
- n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- n. An effort to vomit; a retching.
regain- v. (transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.
strike- v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
- v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
- v. To touch; to act by appulse.
- v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
- v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
- v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- v. To make and ratify.
- v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
- v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
- v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
- v. To balance (a ledger or account).
- n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
- n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
- n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
- n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
- n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
- n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
- n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
- n. The discovery of a source of something.
- n. A strike plate.
succeed- v. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
- v. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue…
- v. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
- v. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
- v. To support; to prosper; to promote.
- v. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed…
- v. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
- v. To go under cover.
win- n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
- v. (intransitive) To reach some destination despite difficulties (generally with a preposition or locative…
- v. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
- v. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
- v. (intransitive) To achieve victory.
- v. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
- v. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
- v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
- n. gain; profit; income.
- n. wealth; owndom; goods.
- n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss).
- n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail).
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