reach

To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).intransitive

• He reached for a weapon that was on the table.
• He reached for his shoe with his legs.

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 reach someone a book

To stretch out the hand.intransitive

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 reach an object with the hand, or with a spear
• “I can't quite reach the pepper. Could you pass it to me?”

To strike or touch.transitive

• His bullet reached its intended target.

To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.broadlytransitive

• A few words, lovingly, encouragingly spoken failed to reach her heart.

To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.transitive

• his hand reaches the river
• When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.

To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.transitive

• After three years, he reached the position of manager.
• The climbers reached the top of the mountain after a gruelling ten-day hike.

To make contact with.figurativelytransitive

• I tried to reach you all day.

To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).figurativelytransitive

• What will it take for me to reach him?

The act of stretching or extending; extension.countableuncountable

The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.countableuncountable

• The fruit is beyond my reach.
• to be within reach of cannon shot

The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.countableuncountable

• Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
• Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.

Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.countableuncountable

• And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach, interposed.
• I am to pray you not to strain my speech / To grosser issues, nor to larger reach / Than to suspicion.

An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.countableinformaluncountable

• To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.

The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.countableuncountable

Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.countableuncountable

The distance traversed between tacks.countableuncountable

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.countableuncountable

• December 2011, Dan Houston, Sailing a classic yacht on the Thames, Classic Boat Magazine Close-hauled past flats at Island Gardens opposite the old Royal Naval College at Greenwich we’d been making more than seven knots over the ground and

A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)countableuncountable

Alternative form of retch.alt-ofalternativedialectal

Alternative form of retch.alt-ofalternativedialectal

Alternative form of riichi.Japanesealt-ofalternative