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accomplish

verb

  1. achieve, succeed in an endeavor
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Pronunciation: /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/ / /əˈkɒm.plɪʃ/ / /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/

verb

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.

  1. To finish successfully.
  2. To complete, as time or distance.

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

    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.

  3. 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 me

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

    The armorers accomplishing the knights

    It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.

  5. To gain; to obtain.

    And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!

  6. To fill out a form.