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< Middle English compleet (full, complete) < Latin completus, pp. of complere (to fill up, fill full, fulfil, complete) < com- + plere (to fill), akin to full: see full and plenty and cf. deplete, replete. Cf. also complement, compliment.

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Infinitive
to complete

Third person singular
completes

Simple past
completed

Past participle
completed

Present participle
completing

to complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)

  1. (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
    He completed the assignment on time.
  2. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
    The last chapter completes the book nicely.

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complete (comparative more complete, superlative most complete)

Positive
complete

Comparative
more complete

Superlative
most complete

  1. With everything included.
    It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
  2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.
  3. (analysis, of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges
  4. (algebra, of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound

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complete pl.

  1. Feminine form of completo.