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reach

verb

1 Travis reached out a hand and pulled her towards him:

stretch out, hold out, extend, outstretch, thrust out, stick out;

literary outreach.

2 informal reach me that book:

pass, hand, give, let someone have.

3 by the time she reached Helen's house she was exhausted:

arrive at, get to, get as far as, come to, make it to, gain;

end up at, land up at, set foot on;

informal make, hit.

4 the temperature reached 94°F | his political popularity had reached a new low:

attain, get to, amount to;

rise to, climb to;

fall to, sink to, drop to;

run to;

informal hit.

5 the two governments failed to reach an agreement:

achieve, attain, gain, accomplish;

work out, draw up, put together, strike, negotiate, thrash out, hammer out.

6 one of their solicitors has been trying to reach you all day:

get in touch with, contact, get through to, get, communicate with, make contact with;

speak to, talk to;

informal get hold of;

British, informal raise.

7 their central concern is to reach more people at all levels of society:

influence, sway, carry weight with, get through to, get to, make an impression on, have an effect on, have an impact on, register with.

noun

1 Bobby moved out of his reach:

grasp, range.

2 set yourself small goals which are within your reach:

capabilities, capacity.

3 they may be beyond the reach of the law:

jurisdiction, authority, sway, control, command, influence;

scope, range, compass, ambit, orbit, latitude;

sphere, area, field, territory.

reach Oxford Dictionary of English