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accomplish.

To finish successfully.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/Received-Pronunciation/əˈkɒm.plɪʃ/Received-Pronunciation/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/General-American, dialectal/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/General-American, dialectal
  1. To finish successfully.

    transitive
  2. To complete, as time or distance.

    transitive
  3. To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

    transitive
    to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
  4. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

    archaic · transitive
  5. To gain; to obtain.

    obsolete · transitive
  6. To fill out a form.

    Philippines · transitive
Where this word comes from

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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