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Definition of Reach out
1. Verb. Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense. "Government reaches out to the people"
2. Verb. Reach outward in space. "The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk"
3. Verb. Attempt to communicate. "I try to reach out to my daughter but she doesn't want to have anything to do with me"
Definition of Reach out
1. Verb. (intransitive) To extend one's hand(s) forward. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) to ask for help ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) to attempt to initiate communication (with someone) ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) to make more friends, to increase one's group of friends or acquaintances. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reach Out
Literary usage of Reach out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Her many hands reach out to us, Glide soundless over grass aiid flowers !
And all the slow, sleep-walking hours From time and place and form apart, ..."
2. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... into the lands of twilight, where the light, the freshness and the shadow sing
an aerial melody, whose last notes reach out into infinity. ..."
3. The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis: With Notes Adapted to the by Xenophon, Morris Hicky Morgan (1896)
"[те(кш], reach out, extend; pass, with ÍK and the gen. and «'s and the ace., i.
8. 10. ... reach out ..."
4. Russell's Magazine by Paul Hamilton Payne (1859)
"But awake, О wanderer! seek her, Even seek her out of reach. Out of reach, and
out of sight !" Cordelia ' There i« a star above me Unlike all the millions ..."
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