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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To succeed in doing; bring to pass. See Synonyms at perform.
  2. v. To reach the end of; complete.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To complete; finish; reach the end of; bring to pass; actually do: as, he works hard, but accomplishes nothing.
  2. To bring about by performance or realization; execute; carry out; fulfil: as, to accomplish a vow, promise, purpose, or prophecy.
  3. Hence To gain; obtain as the result of exertion.
  4. To make complete by furnishing what is wanting: as— To equip or provide with material things.
  5. To equip or furnish mentally; fit by education or training.
  6. Synonyms and Execute, Achieve, etc. (see perform), complete, finish, consummate, succeed in, work out, fulfil, realize, bring to pass, end.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To finish successfully.
  2. v. transitive To complete, as time or distance.
  3. v. transitive 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.
  4. v. transitive, archaic To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
  5. v. transitive, obsolete To gain; to obtain. - Shakespeare

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To complete, as time or distance.
  2. v. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill.
  3. v. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
  4. v. obsolete To gain; to obtain.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. put in effect
  2. v. to gain with effort

Etymologies

  1. Middle English accomplisshen, from Old French acomplir, acompliss-, to complete : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + complir, to complete (from Latin complēre, to fill out; see complete). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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