Definition of accomplish

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accomplish

verb (accomplish, es)

to finish successfully
to complete, as time or distance.
Quotations
- That He would seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
He had accomplished half a league or more. - Prescott
To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to a design, an object, a promise

Quotations
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

Quotations
The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
It the moon is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. - Wilkins
These qualities . . . go to a perfect woman. - Cowden Clarke
(Obsolete): To gain; to obtain - Shakespeare

Translations:

French: accomplir
German: vollenden (1)
Italian: compire
Spanish: lograr

Etymology: Old English acomplissen, Old French accomplir (French accomplir), Latin ad, + complere, "to fill up", "to complete". See complete, finish.

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