accomplish
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English[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for accomplish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology[edit]
- First attested in the late 14th century.
- From Middle English acomplissen, borrowed from Old French acompliss-, present participle stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from Latin ad + complere (“to fill up, to complete”).
- See also complete, finish.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/, /ə.ˈkɒm.plɪʃ/
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Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: a‧ccom‧plish
Verb[edit]
accomplish (third-person singular simple present accomplishes, present participle accomplishing, simple past and past participle accomplished)
- (transitive) To finish successfully.
- (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
- That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
- He had accomplished half a league or more. - William H. Prescott
- (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
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to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
- This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
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- (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
- The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
- It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. - John Wilkins
- These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. - Charles Cowden Clarke
- (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.
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c. 1591, Shakespeare, William, Henry VI, Part 3, act 3, scene 2, lines 151–152:
- And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!
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Synonyms[edit]
- do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry out
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to finish successfully
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to complete, as time or distance
to bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform
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(obsolete) to gain; to obtain
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Further reading[edit]
- accomplish at OneLook Dictionary Search
- accomplish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- accomplish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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