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attain (verb), attains; attained; attaining
1. To achieve an objective: "Lorene attained her high school diploma by completing her home work and striving to learn as much as possible about the subjects she was studying."
2. To arrive at, to reach, as by persistence and the passage of time: "We attain our goal when we reach it."
3. Etymology: from attingere, ad- + tangere, "to touch, to reach".
This entry is located in the following unit: tang-, tact-, tast-, ting-, -tig -tag, -teg- (page 1)