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accomplish Definition

ac·com·plish (ə käm′plis̸h; also, -kum′-)

transitive verb

  1. to do; succeed in doing; complete (a task, time, or distance)
  2. to make complete; perfect

Etymology: ME accomplisshen < OFr acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir < VL *adcomplere < L ad-, intens. + complere: see complete

accomplish Related Forms
ac·com′·plish·able adjective
accomplish Synonyms

accomplish

v.

fulfill, perform, finish, achieve; see achieve 1, 2, perform 1, succeed 1. See syn. study atachieve, perform.

accomplish Usage Examples

Object

  • feat: Can they accomplish this dangerous feat within the critical six days?
  • mission: His death could, like Lennon's, have been his karma, his mission accomplished.
  • task: Outlook Bar The Outlook Bar to accomplish tasks quickly.
  • goal: Did you manage a budget or accomplish goals on schedule?
  • musician: Gerry Richardson - Organ - Bass pedals and Vocals Gerry is a highly accomplished musician and composer.
  • salvation: It is the Gospel of Christ because it is about what Jesus has done in accomplishing the salvation of God's people.

Subject

  • mean: In JetWeb, networking is accomplished by means of Ethernet TCP/IP.

Adjective complement

  • accountant: Are you an accomplished Accountant with great commercial bid experience?

Modifying Another Word

  • technically: Personally I find them boring, however technically accomplished they may be.
  • musically: Seriously, tho, whilst this is all musically accomplished, lyrically it's all a bit too for me testosterone-fuelled.
  • successfully: I could hardly believe that I had successfully accomplished my goal of being a good housekeeper ( at least for a day!
  • easily: Once sufficient fissile material is obtained, designing a basic nuclear warhead can be easily accomplished.
  • highly: These musicians are all highly accomplished in their own right, with long track records pardon the pun.
  • extraordinarily: Underpinning all this is the extraordinarily accomplished conducting of Antonio Pappano.

Used with why or when

  • what: Power cannot be lacking to accomplish what is His own purpose.
  • when: And gender equity is accomplished when every individual is trained according to how their brain thinks.

Present participle complement

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Preposition: without

  • difficulty: The walk was accomplished without great difficulty but soft feet unaccustomed to boots were soon developing blisters.

Preposition: with

  • aid: This was accomplished with the aid of a simulation package, SIMUL8.

Preposition: by

  • mean: In JetWeb, networking is accomplished by means of Ethernet TCP/IP.
accomplish Quotes

We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

—United Nations Charter

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipationö a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

—Williams,William Carlos

The only real thing they accomplish that I can see is to make men feel a little more secure in their consciences about doing evil.

—More, SirThomas