Word Finder - reach

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The act of stretching or extending; extension.

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The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.

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The fruit is beyond my reach.

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The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

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Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

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An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.

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To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.

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The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.

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Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.

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The distance traversed between tacks.

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A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.

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A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)

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An extended portion or area of land or water.

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An article to obtain an advantage.

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The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

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An effort to vomit; a retching.

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To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

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He reached for a weapon that was on the table.

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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.

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to reach one a book

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To stretch out the hand.

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To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.

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The gun was stored in a small box on a high closet shelf, but the boy managed to reach it by climbing on other boxes.

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To strike or touch with a missile.

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His bullet reached its intended target.

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Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.

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To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

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When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.

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To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.

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After three years, he reached the position of manager.

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To make contact with.

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I tried to reach you all day.

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• contact
• get hold of
• get in touch

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To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).

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What will it take for me to reach him?

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To arrive at a particular destination.

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To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.

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You can only access the inheritance money when you reach the age of 25.

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To understand; to comprehend.

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To overreach; to deceive.

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To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.

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Reach for the stars!

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To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).

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To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

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To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.

Sometimes that's the only way you can reach each other.

His smile didn't reach his eyes.

I couldn't reach him.

Anyway, we'll reach Ashley in four or five more days.

She needed to reach Damian, now!

Chuckling, he pushed her head away as she tried to reach his neck.

Her rifle was leaning against the wagon, within easy reach, and her whip hung near by.

The sooner they got started, the sooner they would reach Ashley.

Would they reach Ashley tomorrow?

Which is why I want us to reach an agreement.

Lana raised the baton when she was within arm's reach and held it out.

The bank was within reach.

Then Latin became somewhat universal, from a Western viewpoint, as Rome's reach spread.

The railroad was scheduled to reach Ashley soon and there would be no need for freighting goods to the little town.

And he smiled, a cold smile that did not reach the death in his eyes.

I've been trying to reach you for days.

Tessa scrambled over the rocks to reach her infant, stepping on Carmen's fingers in the process.

My spirit could not reach up to his, but he gave me a real sense of joy in life, and I never left him without carrying away a fine thought that grew in beauty and depth of meaning as I grew.

His own Guardians stayed out of arm's reach of him, and humans picked up and ran.

If she could only reach him … She faced Two, the only thing between her and escape.

His smile didn't reach his gaze but revealed fangs the size of Darkyn's.

Dean looked longingly at a half-finished apple pie—set out of reach by Cynthia—while he nibbled on cold salmon and salad.

Her own journey to reach this point hadn't been easy.

The few times Howie was out of ear shot, the rest of us gossiped about his love life like back fence crones but failed to reach a consensus.

Do you suppose any of these relatives Howie is trying to reach will be as candid about his early years as Reverend Humphries?

Any attempt at comfort was out of reach.

Eventually we reach the point where the technology does everything we need it to do.

Toni snatched Sofi's arm before she could reach him, then grabbed her as she neared.

More than enough, but once we reach the main Jeep road we're sure to see someone.

I might could buy the Annie Quincy look-alike scenario but to me, it's a hard sell to do something horrible like strangling yourself when you have a bottle of perfectly good sleeping pills a hand's reach away.

At times he couldn't reach, and it would be up to Sarah.

As she kept trying to grab the pad, he avoided her reach and flipped through it.

Using it as a ladder, she climbed on the counter, stretching from her knees to reach the top shelf.

I left him with my neighbor and haven't been able to reach her.

Brady hesitated to respond, feeling as though he should concentrate on supporting her, per Tim's directions, rather than reach out to her when he needed her.

Brady chewed back a retort about how this particular army-type had been battling insurgents to reach them on the Peak.

Lana approached him and paused within arm's reach.

The elderly woman sat at the small kitchen table, her weapons within reach.

It took Dean another 40 minutes to reach his car, pull off his rain gear, and secure his bicycle.

Checking the record, her face grew warm on discovery that Alex had once again tried in vain to reach her.

The cat backed away, beyond her reach.

We progress by making explicit the oppositions contained in the fundamental synthesis, by uniting these opposites, analysing the new synthesis, and so on, until we reach an ultimate pair.

The species are both largest and most numerous in the tropics, and reach their greatest development in the Malay countries.

Riego had the good fortune to escape and to reach England after various wanderings in Switzerland and Germany.

We reach surer ground after the Conquest, for then the great seals, monumental effigies, and coins become more and more serviceable in determining the forms the crown took.

I stepped on it, but it bent and gave way and I began to clamber up a fence which I could scarcely reach with my hands.

He'd spent days fighting to reach the Peak with the first one, and Lana had nearly gone off a cliff for another one.

The thought of his Angel in Charlie's reach infuriated Brady.

Brady's body soared with adrenaline as he silently defied death and reach his goal.

They worked on him until she felt the helo descend and finally reach the ground.