accomplish

B1
US /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/ UK /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/
verb Freq #6742

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    to achieve or complete successfully

    I accomplished all my tasks for the day.

  2. 2
    verb

    to gain with effort

    With much help, I accomplished a year of sobriety.

  3. 3
    verb

    To complete, as time or distance.

    That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

  4. 4
    verb

    To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

    to accomplish a design, an object, a promise

  5. 5
    verb

    To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

    The armorers accomplishing the knights

  6. 6
    verb

    To gain; to obtain.

    And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!

  7. 7
    verb

    To finish successfully.

  8. 8
    verb

    To fill out a form.

Etymology

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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Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · to achieve or complete... action
2 verb · to gain with effort reach
Word family
Derived forms accomplishableaccomplisheraccomplishmentreaccomplish
Related forms completecomply

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