v.
- stretch out an arm in order to touch or grasp something.
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(reach something out)
stretch out one's hand or arm.
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(reach something down)
stretch upwards to pick something up and bring it to a lower level.
▸hand (something) to.
- be able to touch (something) with an outstretched arm or leg.
- arrive at or attain; extend to:
unemployment reached a peak in 1933.
- succeed in achieving.
- make contact with.
- (of a broadcast or other communication) be received by.
- succeed in influencing or having an effect on.
- Sailing sail with the wind blowing from the side.
n.
- an act of reaching.
- the distance to which someone can stretch out their hand (used especially of a boxer).
- the extent or range of something's application, effect, or influence.
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(often reaches)
a continuous extent of water, especially a stretch of river between two bends.
- Sailing a distance traversed in reaching.
Derivative
Etymology
OE ræcan, of W. Gmc origin.