accomplish

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To succeed in doing or completing something.

   I accomplished all my tasks for the day.

2. 2
   verb

   To gain or reach something through effort.

   With a lot of help, she accomplished a year of sobriety.

From Middle English accomplisshen, acomplissen, from Old French acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from Vulgar Latin *(ac)complīre, from Latin complēre (“fill up/out, complete”, whence English complete). First attested in the late 14th century.

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