n.
1) to achieve, attain, fulfill, realize one's ~
2) to spur, stir smb.'s ~
3) to limit, restrain one's ~
4) boundless, unbridled; overweening ~
5) a burning, cherished; frustrated; unrealized ~
6) territorial ~s (of an aggressor)
7) an ~ to + inf. (he achieved his ~ to become mayor)