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arriving at

arriving at is the present participle and gerund of arrive at.

Meaning of arrive at

Verb

arrive at (third-person singular simple present arrives at, present participle arriving at, simple past and past participle arrived at)

  1. To reach (a destination)
  2. (idiomatic) To reach (an objective or conclusion)
    • The purpose of this technique was not to satisfy any personal dislike, still less to arrive at the truth, but to achieve a practical object. Lenin himself confirmed this ('blurted it out', as he would have said of anyone else) on an occasion in 1907.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...

Questions about arriving at

What is arriving at the present participle and gerund of?
Arriving at is the present participle and gerund of arrive at.

Words near arriving at in the dictionary

  1. arrives at
  2. arrivest
  3. arriveth
  4. arrividerci
  5. arriving
  6. arriving at
  7. arrivism
  8. arrivisme
  9. arriviste
  10. arrivistes
  11. arrivistic

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