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Accomplish

Accomplish Meaning & Definition
Accomplish Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Accomplish?

[v] bring to execution; "carry out a task"; "carry out the surgery"
[v] to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks."

Synonyms | Synonyms for Accomplish: achieve | attain | carry out | carry through | execute | fulfil | fulfill | reach

Related Terms | Find terms related to Accomplish: achieve | act | approach | arrive | arrive at | arrive in | attain | attain to | be productive | be received | blow in | bob up | bring about | bring into being | bring off | bring through | bring to completion | bring to fruition | bring to pass | carry off | carry out | carry through | cause | check in | clock in | come | come in | come to | come to hand | commit | compass | complete | conclude | conduct | consummate | cope with | crown with success | cut | deal with | discharge | dispatch | dispose of | do | do the job | do the trick | do to | effect | effectuate | eke out | enact | end | engineer | execute | fetch | fetch up at | fill in | fill out | find | finish | fulfill | gain | get by | get in | get there | get to | go and do | hack | handle | hit | hit town | industrialize | inflict | knock off | make | make good | make it | make up | manage | mass-produce | mature | overproduce | pay | perform | perpetrate | piece out | polish off | pop up | produce | pull in | pull off | punch in | put across | put away | put over | put through | reach | realize | refill | render | replenish | ring in | roll in | round out | score | show up | sign in | succeed | swing | take and do | take care of | time in | top off | transact | turn the trick | turn up | up and do | volume-produce | win | wind up | work | work out | wreak

See Also | average | begin | bring about | come through | come to | compass | complete | consummate | culminate | do | effect | effectuate | finagle | finish | get over | get to | make | manage | perfect | perform | progress to | run | score | set up | strike | succeed | wangle | win

Accomplish In Webster's Dictionary

\Ac*com"plish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accomplished}, p. pr. & vb. n. {Accomplishing}.] [OE. acomplissen, OF. accomplir, F. accomplir; L. ad + complere to fill up, complete. See {Complete}, {Finish}.] 1. To complete, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. --Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. --Prescott. 2. 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 xxii. 37. 3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. --Shak. 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. 4. To gain; to obtain. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish. Usage: To {Accomplish}, {Effect}, {Execute}, {Achieve}, {Perform}. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed. To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking. ``Thou shalt accomplish my desire.'' --1 Kings v. 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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