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accompasses

accompasses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of accompass.

Meaning of accompass

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

Questions about accompasses

What is accompasses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Accompasses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of accompass.

Words near accompasses in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accompasses (page history and authors); 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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