accomplish
verbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//əˈkʌm.plɪʃ//
- United Kingdom//əˈkɒm.plɪʃ//
- United States//əˈkɑm.plɪʃ//
- United States//əˈkʌm.plɪʃ//
- Canada//əˈkɒm.plɪʃ//
To finish successfully.
verb
- 1
To finish successfully.
- 2
To complete, as time or distance.
That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
But the rising ground which lay between him and the French prevented him from seeing the enemy until he had accomplished half a league or more.
- 3
To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me
- 4
archaicTo equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
The armorers accomplishing the knights
It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
- 5
obsoleteTo gain; to obtain.
And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!
- 6
To fill out a form.
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.
Forms
- past tense
- accomplished
- past participle
- accomplished
- present participle
- accomplishing
- third person singular
- accomplishes