areach

A1R1E1A1C3H4

verb

To reach for, get at, obtain, get hold of.

OriginOld English aræcan →
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Meanings

verbareach (third-person singular simple present areaches, present participle areaching, simple past and past participle areached or araught)

present singular third person areaches · participle present areaching · participle past areached · past areached · participle past araught · past araught

  1. obsoleteTo reach for, get at, obtain, get hold of.

    Then his ambitious sonnes vnto them twaine / Arraught the rule […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Englisharæcan
  2. Englishareach

From Old English aræcan, corresponding to a- + reach.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with areach

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APA

areach. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/areach

MLA

“areach.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/areach. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “areach,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/areach.

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