reach

1. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).Examples: "He reached for a weapon that was on the table."; "He reached for his shoe with his legs."intransitive

2. (transitive) 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.Examples: "to reach someone a book"transitive

3. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.intransitive

4. (transitive) 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.Examples: "to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear"; "“I can't quite reach the pepper. Could you pass it to me?”"; "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."transitive

5. (transitive, of a missile) To strike or touch.Examples: "His bullet reached its intended target."transitive

6. (transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.Examples: "A few words, lovingly, encouragingly spoken failed to reach her heart."; "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair."broadlytransitive