Home › Words › A › areachareachareach means to reach for, get at, obtain, get hold of.EtymologyFrom Old English aræcan, corresponding to a- + reach.verbTo reach for, get at, obtain, get hold of.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.atreach 74% match — To reach or get at with a weapon; strike. vs areach →attain 67% match — To come to or reach (a place) by motion or progression. vs areach →reachy 64% match — Involving a long reach to get to a hold vs areach →earreach 62% match — earshot vs areach →accroach 61% match — To hook, or draw to oneself as with a hook. vs areach →reachieve 61% match — To achieve again. vs areach →unreach 61% match — To fail to reach vs areach →reachable 61% match — Within easy reach; accessible vs areach →