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Accomplish

//əˈkʌm.plɪʃ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To finish successfully. transitive
  2. 2
    put in effect wordnet
  3. 3
    To complete, as time or distance. transitive

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

  4. 4
    to gain with effort wordnet
  5. 5
    To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully. transitive

    "to accomplish a design, an object, a promise"

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  1. 6
    To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. archaic, transitive

    "The armorers accomplishing the knights"

  2. 7
    To gain; to obtain. obsolete, transitive

    "And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!"

  3. 8
    To fill out a form. Philippines, transitive

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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