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1. Reach a destination, either real or abstract
   "The water reached the doorstep"
   - make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
    
2. Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
   "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
   - hit, attain
    
3. Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense
   "Government reaches out to the people"
   - reach out
    
4. Be in or establish communication with
   "Our advertisements reach millions"
   - get through, get hold of, contact
    
5. To gain with effort
   - achieve, accomplish, attain
    
6. To extend as far as
   "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"
   - extend to, touch
    
7. Reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"
   - make, get to, progress to
    
8. Place into the hands or custody of
   - pass, hand, pass on, turn over, give
    
9. To exert much effort or energy
   - strive, strain

1. The limits within which something can be effective
   "he was beyond the reach of their fire"
   - range
    
2. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control
   "outside the reach of the law"
   - scope, range, orbit, compass, ambit
    
3. The act of physically reaching or thrusting out
   - reaching, stretch
    
4. The limit of capability
   - compass, range, grasp

Derived forms: reaching, reaches, reached

See also: reach into, reach out, reaching

Type of: arrive, be, bring home the bacon, capability, capableness, come, come through, communicate, deliver the goods, drive, extent, get, intercommunicate, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], limit, motility, motion, move, movement, potentiality, push, succeed, transfer, tug, win

Encyclopedia: Reach Reach, Cambridgeshire Reach, Ontario