arrive at

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ar·rive

(ə-rīv′)

intr.v. ar·rived, ar·riv·ing, ar·rives

1. To reach a destination.

2. To come at length; take place: The day of reckoning has arrived.

3. To achieve success or recognition: He had finally arrived as a designer.

Phrasal Verb:

arrive at

To reach through effort or a process: arrive at a decision after much thought.

[Middle English ariven, from Old French ariver, from Vulgar Latin *arrīpāre, to reach the shore : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin rīpa, shore.]

ar·riv′er n.

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Verb

arrive at - reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

reach, attain, gain, hit, make

catch up - reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework"

surmount, scale - reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc"

get at, access - reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof"

bottom out - reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while"

peak, top out - to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"

summit, breast - reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"

top - reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon"

make - reach in time; "We barely made the plane"

find - succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark"

culminate - reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body

come through, get through - succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister"

run aground, ground - hit or reach the ground

arrive

verb

1. To come to a particular place:

check in, get in, pull in, reach, show up, turn up.

Slang: blow in.

Idiom: make an appearance.

2. To gain success:

get ahead, get on, go far, rise, succeed.

Idioms: go places, make good, make it.

phrasal verb
arrive at

To reach (a goal or objective):

attain, come to, gain, get to.

Informal: hit on (or upon).

Translations

يَصِل إلى

dospět k

komme frem til

gelangen

aboutir atteindre parvenir parvenir à remporter

komast aî

komme fram til

varmak

作出达成

arrive

(əˈraiv) verb

to reach (a place, the end of a journey etc). They arrived home last night; The parcel arrived yesterday.

arˈrival noun

1. the act of arriving. I was greeted by my sister on my arrival.

2. a person, thing etc that has arrived. I wish he would stop calling our baby the new arrival.

arrive at

to reach. The committee failed to arrive at a decision.

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Fouquet hoped to be the first to arrive at Nantes; there he would see the notables and gain support among the principal members of the States; he would make himself a necessity, a thing very easy for a man of his merit, and would delay the catastrophe, if he did not succeed in avoiding it entirely.

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They murmured that they had a long and desolate region to traverse, before they could arrive at the point where they might expect to find horses; that it was impossible for Crooks and Le Clerc, in their feeble condition, to get over it; that to remain with them would only be to starve in their company.

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Try as he might, he could arrive at no more satisfactory conclusion than this.

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He was expected to arrive at the premises by 3:30 p.

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