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reaching Synonyms

reaching

modif.

  1. Extending to a point

    touching, meeting, going up to, ending at, stretching, encompassing, taking in, spanning, spreading to, penetrating to, embracing, joining, sweeping on to.

  2. Arriving

    coming to, landing, touching down, entering, disembarking, making port, getting off at, alighting, putting in, getting to, stopping at, making it to*; see also arrival 1, landing.

  3. Extending a part of the body

    stretching, straining, making for, lunging, feeling for, putting out, outstretching, touching, grasping, seizing, striking; see also extending.

reaching Quotes

Negative Capability; that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

—Keats,John

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