accomplish

verb
/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/UK/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/US/əˈkɒm.plɪʃ/CA/əˈkɐm.plɪʃ/

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.

  1. derived from compleo — “fill up/out, complete
  2. inherited from accomplisshen

Definitions

  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 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. + 3 more definitions
    1. To equip or furnish thoroughly

      To 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.
    2. To gain

      To gain; to obtain.

      • And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!
    3. To fill out a form.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at accomplish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01accomplish02fulfill03obey04ordered05technical06science07systematic08procedure09accomplishing

A definitional loop anchored at accomplish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at accomplish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA