accomplish

Definition

To finish successfully.

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.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "to accomplish a design, an object, a promise"

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