realize(ACHIEVE)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to achieve something
achieveAfter years of rejection, she finally achieved success on the big screen.
fulfilI fulfilled my dreams of becoming a marine biologist.
realizeUKThere was nothing to prevent her from realising her ambitions.
come trueI worked so hard to be a doctor, and now my dream has come true.
accomplishThese goals will be extremely hard to accomplish.
attainAfter years of struggle, the nation attained independence.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
A game
accomplish
achieve
acquit
actualize
bear
carry
get through
get to/reach first baseidiom
get your own wayidiom
go faridiom
go from strength to strengthidiom
kill
pan
rise
sail through (something)
scale the heightsidiom
scrape through (something)
sew something up
slam dunk

Examples of attained

attained

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It emphasizes the success its students have attained.
This can be attained only by performing the experiments under closely controlled circumstances which are difficult to obtain, as was soon discovered.
The highest radiation efficiencies and energies are attained in chain lasers pumped by chain reactions.
She attained power, but almost always through the elimination or feminisation of the men that surrounded her.
While there are labour unions that have attained some successes, farmers, artisans, petty traders and female workers have not organised effectively to demand economic opportunities.
As long as objectives are attained, it does not matter how that is done; formal rules are only guidelines - except professional ethics.
However, it was unlikely that without other allies, labor alone could have attained the truck prohibition.
The goal is commendable and ambitious, but is not fully attained in the present volume.
Search continues until a state is found where all the goals are attained.
Fourth, the government order implies that a municipal administration is a kind of privilege conferred on localities that have attained a certain distinction.
It was almost taken for granted that once democracy had been attained, human rights would naturally follow.
Moreover, nearly one-quarter of the women in the first cohort attained 91 years of age.
The maximum acceleration is that which is attained applying the maximum effort when rolling, grade and aerodynamic resistances are overcome.
This is a passively attained belief; it is something they have taken on and have assumed without thinking too much.
We have also argued that unless regularity is attained by luck, flexible functional forms should always be estimated subject to regularity.
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