definition of the word accomplish

Old English acomplissen < Old French accomplir (French accomplir) < Latin ad + complere (“‘to fill up, to complete’”). See also complete, finish.

• (UK) IPA: /əˈkəm.plɪʃ/, SAMPA: /@"k@m.plIS/
• (US) IPA: /əˈkɔm.pliʃ/, SAMPA: /@"kOm.pliS/
• Hyphenation: ac-com'plish

to accomplish (third-person singular simple present accomplishes, present participle accomplishing, simple past and past participle accomplished)

1. To finish successfully.
2. To complete, as time or distance.

   • That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
   • He had accomplished half a league or more. - Prescott

3. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.

   • This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37

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

   • The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
   • It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. - Wilkins
   • These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. - Cowden Clarke

5. (obsolete) To gain; to obtain. - Shakespeare

• To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish
• To execute, achieve, perform. T

• • Thou shalt accomplish my desire. - 1 Kings 5:9
  • He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland. - Macaulay

• To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little.

  • What he decreed, he effected. - Milton
  • To work in close design by fraud or guile / What force effected not. - Milton

• To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project.
• To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. *:*Thou canst best perform that office. - Milton

  • The Saints, like stars, around his seat / Perform their courses still. - Keble

• To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence

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