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Reach   /ritʃ/   Listen
verb
Reach  v. t.  (past & past part. reached, obs. raught; pres. part. reaching)  
1.
To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. "Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten." "Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side." "Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs."
2.
Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. "He reached me a full cup."
3.
To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear. "O patron power,... thy present aid afford, Than I may reach the beast."
4.
To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
5.
Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. "If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine."
6.
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. "Thy desire... leads to no excess That reaches blame."
7.
To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. "Before this letter reaches your hands."
8.
To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. "The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality."
9.
To understand; to comprehend. (Obs.) "Do what, sir? I reach you not."
10.
To overreach; to deceive. (Obs.)


Reach  v. i.  To retch.


Reach  v. i.  
1.
To stretch out the hand. "Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste!"
2.
To strain after something; to make efforts. "Reaching above our nature does no good."
3.
To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. "And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven." "The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone."
4.
(Naut.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
To reach after or To reach for or To reach at, to make efforts to attain to or obtain. "He would be in the posture of the mind reaching after a positive idea of infinity."


Retch  v. i.  (past & past part. retched; pres. part. retching)  (Written also reach)  To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. "Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.)"


noun
Reach  n.  An effort to vomit. (R.)


Reach  n.  
1.
The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
2.
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. "Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended." "Be sure yourself and your own reach to know."
3.
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. "And on the left hand, hell, With long reach, interposed." "I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues, nor to larger reach Than to suspicion."
4.
An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. "The river's wooded reach." "The coast... is very full of creeks and reaches."
5.
An artifice to obtain an advantage. "The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design."
6.
The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.





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"Reach" Quotes from Famous Books



... Franco-Prussian War. He was a prolific and too hasty writer, but his novel of "Ravenshoe," whose scene is principally laid on the northern strip of Somerset coast, bordering the Bristol Channel, and which was his own favourite among his works, is considered by many critics to reach a high level, and to stand comparison with the work of his more famous brother. In the Academy of 1901 the following tribute to the book appeared under the initials C.K.B.: "I first read 'Ravenshoe' at that period when ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... proceeded, wondering whether such abominable nonsense was interesting the child, whose gaze had now begun to reach out to sea. In reality Rupert was thrilled, and did not like to disturb the flow of a story so affecting. But the strength of his feelings was too much. He was obliged ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... one of the kind who cannot think without perspiring. In the large room the ministers gossiped about eternal punishment, and of the two dominies one sat at his ease, like a passenger who knows that the coach will reach the goal without any exertion on his part, while the other paced the floor, with many a despondent glance through the open door whence the scraping proceeded; and the one was pleasantly cool; and the other in a plot of heat; and the one made genial remarks about ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... for the ideal young man. If I don't find him I shall die an old maid. But I shall find him. We may pass each other on Fifth Avenue. We may sit next each other at a theatre. Wherever it is, I shall just reach right out and grab him and whisk him away. And if he's married already, he'll have to get a divorce. And I shan't care who he is. He may be any one. I don't mind if he's a ribbon clerk or a prize-fighter or a policeman or a cab-driver, so long as ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... supper, which he sat before, In near reach of the wood-box, the stove-door And one leaf of the kitchen-table, was Somewhat belated, and in lifted pause His dextrous knife was balancing a bit Of fried mush near ...
— A Child-World • James Whitcomb Riley


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