Arrive

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To bring to shore.

II. Arrive ·vi To happen or occur.

III. Arrive ·noun Arrival.

IV. Arrive ·vt To Reach; to come to.

V. Arrive ·vi To Come; said of time; as, the time arrived.

VI. Arrive ·vi To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.

VII. Arrive ·vi To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land;

— followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from.

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    In the most nautical sense, is to come to any place by water, to reach the shore. ...

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