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achieved

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a·chieved  (-chvd)
adj.
Highly skilled or developed; accomplished: "The author . . . is not merely lucky, but an achieved and deserving fiction writer" (Wright Morris).


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The hungry animal goes on making movements until it gets food; it seems natural, therefore, to suppose that the idea of food is present throughout the process, and that the thought of the end to be achieved sets the whole process in motion.
I should be ashamed to say what literary triumphs I achieved in those preposterous deliriums.
No doubt a fair amount of climbing up iron ladders can be achieved by an active man in a ship's engine-room, but I remember moments when even to my supple limbs and pride of nimbleness the sailing- ship's machinery seemed to reach up to the very stars.
 
 
 
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