reaching

• acquainting
• addressing
• advising
• affecting
• afflicting
• agitating
• alluring
• apprising
• arrival
• attracting
• bearing
• bewitching
• biasing
• biassing
• bothering
• briefing
• bucking
• buzzing
• calling
• captivating
• carrying
• carrying away
• ceding
• charming
• clueing
• cluing
• coloring
• coming to
• concerning
• contacting
• dazzling
• delivering
• discomforting
• discomposing
• disembarking
• disquieting
• distressing
• disturbing
• embracing
• enchanting
• encompassing
• ending at
• engaging
• enlightening
• enrapturing
• entering
• enthralling
• entrancing
• extending
• familiarizing
• fascinating
• feeling for
• filling in
• fingering
• flustering
• getting
• getting hold of
• getting in touch with
• getting to
• giving
• giving up
• going up to
• grasping
• handing
• handing over
• handling
• harassing
• harrying
• impacting
• impressing
• influencing
• informing
• inspiring
• instructing
• interesting
• involving
• joining
• keeping in touch with
• landing
• lunging
• making for
• meeting
• moving
• notifying
• outstretching
• passing
• pawing
• penetrating
• perturbing
• pestering
• phoning
• piercing
• plaguing
• ravishing
• relaying
• releasing
• relinquishing
• rendering
• smiting
• spanning
• spreading to
• stirring
• stopping at
• straining
• stressing
• stretching
• striking
• surrendering
• swaying
• telephoning
• telling
• touching
• touching down
• transferring
• transporting
• troubling
• trying
• turning over
• upsetting
• worrying
• wringing
• yielding

• boring
• jading
• palling
• tiring
• underwhelming
• wearying

• verb
  1. To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
  2. To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
  3. To stretch out the hand.
  4. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
  5. To strike or touch with a missile.
  6. Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
  7. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
  8. To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
  9. To make contact with.
  10. To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
  11. To arrive at a particular destination.
  12. To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
  13. To understand; to comprehend.
  14. To overreach; to deceive.
  15. To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
  16. To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
  17. To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
  18. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
• noun
  1. The action of one who reaches; an attempt to grasp something by stretching.
  2. Sailing on a reach, i.e. having the wind on either side and coming from an angle that is larger with respect to the bow than when sailing close-hauled.

• He’s been reaching for his dreams for years, and now they’re within his grasp.
• The children are reaching for the stars as part of their school project.
• She’s been reaching out to her contacts for help with the new project.
• The company is reaching new heights in the tech industry.
• He was reaching for the last cookie on the shelf when his brother grabbed it first.

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