Accomplish
/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo finish successfully.
verbTo complete, as time or distance.
Sentence Examples
Any activity you need to accomplish will take more time than you have.
Come what may, I am determined to accomplish it.
CEFR Practice Quiz
With hard work and dedication, she managed to ____ her goal of climbing Everest.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
If we work together, we can ____ anything we set our minds to.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 9:2:
"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."
— 1855, William H[ickling] Prescott, “War with France”, in History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 231:
"This that is written must yet be accomplished in me"
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 22:37:
"The armorers accomplishing the knights"
— 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
"It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it."
— 1638, John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moone:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
With hard work and dedication, she managed to ____ her goal of climbing Everest.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
If we work together, we can ____ anything we set our minds to.