Achieved Achieve I əˈtʃiːv Today Upset Parents Verb

• he had finally achieved success.
• they could not achieve their target of less than 3% inflation.
• i haven't achieved very much today.
• all you've achieved is to upset my parents.

achieve

1. to succeed in reaching a particular goal, status or standard, especially by making an effort for a long time
• synonym attain
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/attain
• He had finally achieved success.
• They could not achieve their target of less than 3% inflation.
2. to succeed in doing something or causing something to happen
• synonym accomplish
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/accomplish
• I haven't achieved very much today.
• All you've achieved is to upset my parents.
3. to be successful
• Their background gives them little chance of achieving at school.

Extra Examples

• By the end of the afternoon we had achieved very little.
• I achieved a longstanding ambition to fly solo.
• I knew that the demonstration would achieve nothing.
• Sooner or later our shared efforts will achieve results.
• The present law has failed to achieve its objectives.
• They haven’t achieved much yet.
• how to achieve a balance between work and family life
• All you’ve achieved is to upset my parents.
• I haven’t achieved very much today.
• These students need to achieve academically in order to enter the labour market.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they achieve
• he / she / it achieves
• past simple achieved
• past participle achieved
• -ing form achieving

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French achever ‘come or bring to a head’, from a chief ‘to a head’.