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

Synonyms:

get wind, assume, obtain, come over, meet, reach out, execute, get word, gain, hear, pass water, make water, work, procure, find out, come across, constitute, make believe, reach, come upon, ready, crap, get to, shit, arrive at, dispatch, make headway, happen upon, chance on, bring out, action, remove, excise, construct, encounter, ca-ca, get through, see, come to, touch, bump off, give away, fall, take a shit, establish, observe, puddle, pass on, shoot, nominate, chance upon, detect, get, walk out, have, piddle, mint, contact, discover, extend to, luck into, strain, scratch, induce, put on, stool, bring in, fulfil, key, gain ground, divulge, collide with, describe, rack up, score, expunge, turn over, carry out, pretend, seduce, resonate, prepare, impinge on, run across, strive, unwrap, pull in, fall upon, take, get hold of, strike, get ahead, micturate, pee-pee, let on, gather, coin, get a line, find, pick up, give, master, do, progress to, wee-wee, wee, identify, build, spend a penny, break, light upon, move, piss, compass, throw, draw, realise, murder, hit on, make, start, learn, create, notice, shine, off, pull ahead, fix, enter upon, benefit, pass, pee, carry through, take a leak, profit, advance, reveal, stumble, clear, take in, form, stimulate, take up, secure, urinate, make up, let out, relieve oneself, disclose, impress, polish off, pip, study atachieve, hold, run into, cause, distinguish, take a crap, name, cook, affect, hand, hit, defecate, grasp, lay down, realize, slay, strickle, expose, key out, produce, derive

aggregate, tally, accrue, annex, augment, acquire, total, add, sum, increase, increment, accumulate

earn, triumph, achieve, fulfill, overcome, consummate, win, dominate, surmount, prevail, succeed, ascend

come, arrive, debark, enter, land, accomplish

Usage examples:

• If they are not determined to a particular development they can attain it only by Chance. - "The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer", John Gerard.
• He had a regard for the work as a whole and a care for its details, to which the Colonne orchestra did not quite attain. - "Musicians of To-Day", Romain Rolland Commentator: Claude Landi.
• If nothing better, mere recognition, or exultation in an excellence to which we do not attain, has a saving grace of its own. - "From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life", Captain A. T. Mahan.