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accomplish

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ac⋅com⋅plish

  [uh-kom-plish]
Use accomplish in a Sentence
–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.
3. Archaic. to provide polish to; perfect.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME, earlier accomplice < MF accompliss-, s. of acomplir, equiv. to a- ac- + complir ≪ L complēre to fill; see complete, -ish 2

Related forms:
ac⋅com⋅plish⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ac⋅com⋅plish⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. complete, fulfill; execute, effect. See do 1 .
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ac·com·plish   (ə-kŏm'plĭsh)   
tr.v.   ac·com·plished, ac·com·plish·ing, ac·com·plish·es

  1. To succeed in doing; bring to pass. See Synonyms at perform.

  2. To reach the end of; complete.


[Middle English accomplisshen, from Old French acomplir, acompliss-, to complete : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + complir, to complete (from Latin complēre, to fill out; see complete).]
ac·com'plish·a·ble adj., ac·com'plish·er n.
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Word Origin & History

accomplish 
c.1386, from O.Fr. acompliss-, stem of acomplir "to fulfill, fill up, complete," from V.L. *accomplere, from L. ad- "to" + complere "fill up" (see complete). Accomplished "perfect as a result of training" is from 1475. Accomplishment first recorded c.1460.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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