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      reach
      noun
      The act of stretching or extending; extension.
      The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
      Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
      (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
      (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
      (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
      (nautical) The distance traversed between tacks.
      (nautical) A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
      A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
      An extended portion or area of land or water.
      The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
      The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
      A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5666).
      A former township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada, now part of the township of Scugog.
      (Japanese mahjong, pachinko) Alternative form of riichi. [(Japanese mahjong) A yaku (scoring condition) and 1000-point bet made by declaring the hand to be ready, waiting for one more tile to win.]
      Acronym of Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals.
      (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
      (obsolete or dialect) Alternative form of retch. [An unsuccessful effort to vomit.]
      verb
      (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
      (transitive) 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.
      (transitive) 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.
      (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
      (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
      (transitive, figurative) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
      (transitive, figurative) To make contact with.
      (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
      (transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
      To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
      (transitive) To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
      (transitive, of a missile) To strike or touch.
      (intransitive, India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination.
      (slang, MTE, MLE) To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
      (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
      (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
      (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
      (obsolete or dialect) Alternative form of retch. [(transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.]
      Synonyms for reach
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      Words related to reach
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