accomplish
Meaning
- (transitive) To finish successfully.
- (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
- (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
- (archaic, transitive) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
- (obsolete, transitive) To gain; to obtain.
- (Philippines, transitive) To fill out a form.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/
Etymology
In summary
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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