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.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , passage=Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.}}

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness.

*

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

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

* Bible, Leviticus

When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.

To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.

to reap a benefit from exertions

* Milton

Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?

* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7

For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7

(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.

(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

(Shakespeare)