accomplish
verbUK /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/ · US /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
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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To finish successfully.
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To complete, as time or distance.
- That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 9:2:
- But the rising ground which lay between him and the French prevented him from seeing the enemy until he had accomplished half a league or more.1855, William H[ickling] Prescott, “War with France”, in History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 231:
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To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
- to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
- This that is written must yet be accomplished in me1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 22:37:
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Archaic To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
- The armorers accomplishing the knights1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.1638, John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moone:
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- These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare's Characters:
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Obsolete To gain; to obtain.
- And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
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Philippines To fill out a form.
- Synonyms
- do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry out, pull off
- Derived terms
- accomplishable, accomplisher, accomplishment, mission accomplished, reaccomplish