accomplish
//əˈkʌm.plɪʃ//
Forms
- present (v1)
- accomplish
- past (v2)
- accomplished
- past participle (v3)
- accomplished
- present participle
- accomplishing
- 3rd person singular
- accomplishes
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 fulfill; to complete successfully.
4.To fill out a form.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2423
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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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.