Verb
reach a destination, either real or abstract
Source: WordNetIt is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. André Gide
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. James Baldwin
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Ralph Ellison
Good people have set sail to arrive at such gentleness as cuts like diamonds. Kashmir Proverb
Vultures arrive at the place where the goat is slaughtered. Kikuyu Proverb