Verb

(achiev)

To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

* I. Taylor

Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.

(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:

Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].

To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

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* (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v

Some are born great, some achieve greatness.

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Thou hast achieved our liberty.

(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.

* Prior

Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .

* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i

He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.

Verb

(es)

To clasp; to interlock.

To make certain; to finalize.

I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.

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To fasten securely or permanently.

To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.

To embrace passionately.

To hold firmly; to clench.

* Dryden

Clinch the pointed spear.

To set closely together; to close tightly.

to clinch the teeth or the fist

(Jonathan Swift)