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Reaching
/ˈɹiːtʃɪŋ/
To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
📖 Definitions of "Reaching"
verb
- 1
To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
"He reached for a weapon that was on the table."
- 2
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.
"to reach one a book"
- 3
To stretch out the hand.
- 4
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.
"The gun was stored in a small box on a high closet shelf, but the boy managed to reach it by climbing on other boxes."
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