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
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 achieved

achieved

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

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.
This filter mechanism is achieved in our approach by defining the relevant concepts and roles needed to describe solutions to a configuration problem.
But whether such ends are achieved may depend on how the rules are taught.
They achieved this using structures based on segmented number systems, which are considerably more involved than the structure used here.
In the process these rearticulations have achieved three things.
These figures may stand out in a regional context, but have not been achieved through structural change.
Both styles seem to promote the child's participation, though the way in which this is achieved seems to differ.
In the absence of spatial analysis, it is unlikely that similar insights or advances could have been achieved.
Virtually complete bath changes could be achieved in a few minutes while holding bath temperature constant.
However, semantic completeness is achieved at the cost of making the set of types of a term undecidable.
This view is supported by studies that are intended to show that satisfactory understanding on the part of patients cannot be achieved.
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