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  • 1High-reaching — High reach ing, a. Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2high-reaching — highˈ reachˈing adjective 1. Reaching upwards 2. Ambitious • • • Main Entry: ↑high …

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  • 3high-reaching — a. 1. Reaching upward, lofty, towering, heaven kissing. 2. Ambitious, aspiring …

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  • 4high — [adj1] tall; at a great distance aloft aerial, alpine, altitudinous, big, colossal, elevated, eminent, flying, formidable, giant, gigantic, grand, great, high reaching, high rise, hovering, huge, immense, large, lofty, long, sky high, sky… …

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  • 5high — Synonyms and related words: Dutch courage, Gymnasium, Hydromatic, Latin school, Olympian, Realgymnasium, Realschule, a bit much, a high, abandoned, above, abovestairs, academy, accented, acme, acute, aerial, afflicted, aged, aggrandized, agog,… …

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  • 6high — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. elevated, lofty, tall; towering, eminent; acute, sharp, shrill; prominent, important, directorial; costly, dear, expensive; overripe, gamy; informal, elated; slang, drunk. See height, drinking,… …

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  • 7high pitched — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, aerial, airy, altitudinous, alto, ascending, aspiring, colossal, dominating, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, falsetto, haughty, high, high reaching, high set, high sounding, high toned, high up, lofty,… …

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  • 8high flying — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, aspiring, bedizened, big sounding, careerist, careeristic, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy,… …

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  • 9high — I. a. 1. Lofty, elevated, tall, high reaching, heaven kissing, of great altitude. 2. Eminent, prominent, pre eminent, distinguished, superior. 3. Elevated, exalted, noble, dignified, lofty, great, admirable. 4. Abstruse, recondite, occult,… …

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  • 10High-speed rail in Europe — High speed rail is emerging in Europe as an increasingly popular and efficient means of transportation. The first high speed rail lines in Europe, built in the 1980s and 1990s, improved travel times on intra national corridors. Since then,… …

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