accomplish

Meaning

Verb

• To finish successfully.
• To complete, as time or distance.
• To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
• To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
• To gain; to obtain.
• to fill out a form

Related

Similar words

• do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry out

Origin

• From Middle English accomplisshen, acomplissen, from Old French, extended stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from a- (from Latin Latin ad) + complir (or possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *accomplīre, with inchoative *accomplesco), from Vulgar Latin *complīre and *complesco, from Latin compleo ("to fill up, fill out, complete"); see complete.
• First attested in the late 14th century.