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accompass

accompass verb: to achieve; effect; bring about.

Verb

accompass (third-person singular simple present accompasses, present participle accompassing, simple past and past participle accompassed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To achieve; effect; bring about.
    • The remotion of two such impediments is not commonly accompass'd by one head-piece.1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D

Forms of accompass

third-person singular presentaccompasses
present participleaccompassing
past participleaccompassed
pastaccompassed

Origin of accompass

Superficially ac- + compass, but perhaps a- (“intensifying prefix”) + compass (“to accomplish”).

Questions about accompass

What does accompass mean?
Accompass means to achieve; effect; bring about.
What part of speech is accompass?
Accompass is a verb.
What is the past tense of accompass?
The past tense of accompass is accompassed.

Words near accompass in the dictionary

  1. accompany
  2. accompanying
  3. accompanyings
  4. accompanyist
  5. accompanyists
  6. accompass
  7. accompassed
  8. accompasses
  9. accompassing
  10. accompletive
  11. accomplice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accompass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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