accomplish

CEFRB2

/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To succeed in doing or completing something.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To complete, as time or distance.

Examples

  • Any activity you need to accomplish will take more time than you have.

  • Come what may, I am determined to accomplish it.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

  2. To finish successfully.

  3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

More examples

In context

  • to accomplish a design, an object, a promise

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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.