reach

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reach/riːtʃ/

▶verb

• 1 stretch out an arm in order to touch or grasp something.

  ■ (reach something out) stretch out one's hand or arm.

  ■ (reach something down) stretch upwards to pick something up and bring it to a lower level.

  ■ hand (something) to.

• 2 be able to touch (something) with an outstretched arm or leg.

• 3 arrive at or attain; extend to: unemployment reached a peak in 1933.

• 4 succeed in achieving.

• 5 make contact with.

• 6 (of a broadcast or other communication) be received by.

• 7 succeed in influencing or having an effect on.

• 8 Sailing sail with the wind blowing from the side.

▶noun

• 1 an act of reaching.

• 2 the distance to which someone can stretch out their hand (used especially of a boxer).

• 3 the extent or range of something's application, effect, or influence.

• 4 (often reaches) a continuous extent of water, especially a stretch of river between two bends.

• 5 Sailing a distance traversed in reaching.

– derivatives
reachable adjective.

– origin OE rǣcan, of W. Gmc origin.