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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accomplish \accom"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.
      1913 webster

            that he would accomplish seventy years in the
            desolations of jerusalem.             --dan. ix. 2.
      1913 webster

            he had accomplished half a league or more.
                                                  --prescott.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            this that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
                                                  --luke xxii.
                                                  37.
      1913 webster

   3. to equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in
      acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
      1913 webster

            the armorers accomplishing the knights. --shak.
      1913 webster

            it the moon is fully accomplished for all those
            ends to which providence did appoint it. --wilkins.
      1913 webster

            these qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect
            woman.                                --cowden
                                                  clarke.
      1913 webster

   4. to gain; to obtain. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

                he . . . expressed his desire to see a union
                accomplished between england and scotland.
                                                  --macaulay.
          1913 webster 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.
          1913 webster

                to work in close design by fraud or guile
                what force effected not.          --milton.
          1913 webster 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.
          1913 webster

                the saints, like stars, around his seat
                perform their courses still.      --keble.
          1913 webster to achieve to come to the end or
          arrive at one's purpose usually implies some
          enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty,
          and excellence.
          1913 webster
see also:
accomplished accomplishing complete finish accomplish effect 
execute achieve perform 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
accomplish
     v 1: put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of
          the people"; "he actioned the operation" syn: carry
          through, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
     2: to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite
        setbacks" syn: achieve, attain, reach
see also:
carry through execute carry out action fulfill fulfil 
achieve attain reach 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
122 moby thesaurus words for "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





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