Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal.

synoniemen: aim, draw a bead on, shoot for.

Roget 990: worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere etc. 928; adore, do service, pay homage; humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on one's knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship.    pray, invoke, supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions; beseech etc. (ask) 765; say one's prayers, tell one's beads.    return thanks, give thanks; say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises; give benediction, lead the choir, intone; deacon, deacon off propitiate [U.S.], offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows, give alms.    work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass; communicate etc. (rite) 998.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 305: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.    climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade^†, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.    [cause to go up] raise, elevate etc. 307.    go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap etc. 309.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: streven, nastreven, ambiëren