As a verb, to reach means to stretch out your hand or body to touch or get something, or to arrive at a place or level. As a noun, it can mean the distance you can stretch, or an area that something affects.
It comes from Old English “ræcan,” meaning “to stretch out, extend, deliver,” from Proto-Germanic “*raikjan.” The idea of stretching naturally led to the ideas of arriving and influencing.
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