verb

• (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
• (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
  "You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it."
• (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
  "Full many Countreyes they did overronne, From the uprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard adventures did atchieve […]"
• (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
  "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."