accomplish

[ uh-kom-plish ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.

  2. to complete (a distance or period of time): to have accomplished the age of 70;We accomplished the journey in little more than an hour.

  1. Archaic. to provide polish to; perfect.

Origin of accomplish

1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French accompliss-, stem of acomplir, equivalent to a- ac- + complir, ultimately from Latin complēre “to fill”; see complete, -ish2

synonym study For accomplish

1. See do1.

Other words for accomplish

Other words from accomplish

  • ac·com·plish·a·ble, adjective
  • ac·com·plish·er, noun
  • pre·ac·com·plish, verb (used with object)
  • un·ac·com·plish·a·ble, adjective

Words that may be confused with accomplish

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How to use accomplish in a sentence

  • That which you suppose accomplishable in fourteen or fifteen years, I may believe practicable in a much shorter period.

  • In a situation of the utmost accomplishable reality it had been vague, meaningless.

    Cytherea | Joseph Hergesheimer

British Dictionary definitions for accomplish

accomplish

/ (əˈkɒmplɪʃ, əˈkʌm-) /


verb(tr)
  1. to manage to do; achieve

  2. to conclude successfully; complete

Origin of accomplish

1
C14: from Old French acomplir to complete, ultimately from Latin complēre to fill up. See complete

Derived forms of accomplish

  • accomplishable, adjective
  • accomplisher, noun

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