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What is the verb for achievement?

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achieve
  1. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance. [from 14th c.]
  2. (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish. [from 14th c.]
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully. [14th-18th c.]
  4. (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. [from 14th c.]
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out. [14th-16th c.]
  6. (literary) To obtain (a material thing). [from 15th c.]
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “I feel like we have set the bar incredibly low by trying to achieve victory in the junior sack race.”
      “It would be a marathon month of mountaineering, but Lance was determined to achieve the greatest climb of his career.”
      “They were able to achieve an important triumph against their chief rivals.”
achieved
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achieves
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sometimes the very act of trying to censor what reaches the public domain can backfire and achieves the reverse result to the one intended.”
      “It's simple, it's to the point, there's a lightness of feel to it, and it achieves results.”
      “In most cases, as long as the worker achieves set targets, they will be left to their own devices.”
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