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ac⋅com⋅plish
[uh-kom-plish] 
plɪʃ
–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. |
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| ac·com·plish (ə-kŏm'plĭsh) tr.v. ac·com·plished, ac·com·plish·ing, ac·com·plish·es
[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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Accomplish
Ac*com"plish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accomplished, p. pr. & vb. n. Accomplishing.] [OE. acomplissen, OF. accomplir, F. accomplir; L. ad + complere to fill up, complete. See Complete, Finish.]1. To complete, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. --Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. --Prescott. 2. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. --Luke xxii. 37. 3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. --Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. --Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. --Cowden Clarke. 4. To gain; to obtain. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish. Usage: To Accomplish, Effect, Execute, Achieve, Perform. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed. To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking. "Thou shalt accomplish my desire." --1 Kings v. 9. He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland. --Macaulay. To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little. "What he decreed, he effected." --Milton. To work in close design by fraud or guile What force effected not. --Milton. To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project. To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. "Thou canst best perform that office." --Milton. The Saints, like stars, around his seat Perform their courses still. --Keble. To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence.
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Language Translation for : accomplish
Spanish:
realizar, lograr,
German:
schaffen,
Japanese:
果たす
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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