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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.
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            that he would accomplish seventy years in the
            desolations of jerusalem.             --dan. ix. 2.
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            he had accomplished half a league or more.
                                                  --prescott.
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   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.
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            this that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
                                                  --luke xxii.
                                                  37.
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   3. to equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in
      acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
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            the armorers accomplishing the knights. --shak.
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            it the moon is fully accomplished for all those
            ends to which providence did appoint it. --wilkins.
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            these qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect
            woman.                                --cowden
                                                  clarke.
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   4. to gain; to obtain. obs. --shak.
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   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.
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                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.
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                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.
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                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.
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see also:
accomplished accomplishing complete finish accomplish effect 
execute achieve perform 

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