reach out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense
Government reaches out to the people
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
reach outward in space
The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk
Types & categories
- be hypernym
Related & opposite
- extensile derivation
- extendible derivation
Sense 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
Types & categories
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | reach out |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | reaching |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | extensile |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | extendible |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | interact |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | draw out |