underachieve

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.

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to receive or be given something
getI got a new bike for my birthday.
receiveYou will receive your tickets by email.
obtainAfter many years of trying, she finally obtained Brazilian citizenship.
gainYou will improve at the job as you gain experience.
earnEventually, you will earn the dog's trust.
achieveShe achieved top marks in the physics exam.
We've achieved some marvellous results with this new drug.我们已用这种新药取得了极好的疗效。
He has already achieved his main ambition in life - to become wealthy.他已经实现了他人生最大的志向——发财致富。
I've been working all day, but I feel as if I've achieved nothing.我干了整整一天，但觉得好像什么都没有做成。
She was so desperate for success that she'd do anything to achieve it.
We've set ourselves a series of goals to achieve by the end of the month.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
A game
accomplish
acquit
actualize
attain
bear
get through
get to/reach first baseidiom
go faridiom
go from strength to strengthidiom
go into orbitidiom
kill
pan
rise
scale the heightsidiom
scrape through (something)
sew something up
slam dunk
smash itidiom
stand out

achieve | American Dictionary

achieve
verb[ T ]
us/əˈtʃiv/
to do or obtain something that you wanted after planning and working to make it happen:
She achieved her objective of qualifying for the US Olympic team.
I am hopeful that we can achieve peace eventually, but it is not going to be easy.

achievable

adjective[ not gradable ]us/əˈtʃi·və·bəl/
Increasing sales by 5 percent is an achievable goal.

achieve | Business English

achieve
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈtʃiːv/us
to successfully finish or do something you wanted to do, especially after a lot of effort:
attempt/strive/seek to achieve sthSalespersons strived to achieve maximum sales.
achieve an objective/goal/targetThe division has achieved its objective of being a major force in home entertainment.
It is hard to see how these projects can achieve their potential .
achieve success/profitability/savings

Examples of achieve

achieve
If there is a government policy that allows the decentralized economy to achieve the constrained planner's allocation, then it is the optimal policy choice.
However, close monitoring and a quick response seem to be the key factors in achieving success.
Moreover, common expressions are open to multiple philosophical interpretations precisely because common expressions lack the precision aimed for (though not always achieved) by philosophical discourse.
If hemodynamic stability can be achieved, sinus rhythm returns in the vast majority of patients spontaneously within a few days after surgery.
In the two different regions, however, there does appear to be a significant difference in the balance achieved between these two opposing pulls.
First, what sorts of representations are being aligned; and second, how is this alignment achieved?
No further gains were achieved in the last decade of the century, during which the third- and fourth-generation cultivars replaced the original introduced cultivars.
A number of control schemes for achieving this objective have been reported in the literature.
Indeed, patients were often reluctant to be prescribed a detoxification drug which had not led to them successfully achieving abstinence in the past.
One day before each new infestation the beans were carefully mixed to achieve a random distribution of host larvae.
This filter mechanism is achieved in our approach by defining the relevant concepts and roles needed to describe solutions to a configuration problem.
A good robotic design achieves high efficiency of this motion transformation.
For achieving this purpose, the commission stresses the importance of having reliable and comparable information on health interventions.
It became evident that interpretation and technique are integrated and interdependent; technical decisions being made in order to achieve the desired musical outcome.
Here, language standardization achieved great success in a less developed country with less advanced technical equipment in a fairly short period.
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