meaning of attain
1. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
2. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
3. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
4. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
5. To overtake.
6. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
7. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc. ; to reach.
8. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
9. Attainment.
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