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accomplish

Syllables: ac·com·plishUK/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ//əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/

accomplish verb: to finish successfully.

Verb

accomplish (third-person singular simple present accomplishes, present participle accomplishing, simple past and past participle accomplished)

  1. (transitive) To finish successfully.
  2. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
    • That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 9:2
    • 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.1855, William H[ickling] Prescott, “War with France”, in History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 231
  3. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
    • to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
    • This that is written must yet be accomplished in me1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 22:37
  4. (archaic, transitive) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
    • The armorers accomplishing the knights1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.1638, John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moone
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To gain; to obtain.
    • And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  6. (Philippines, transitive) To fill out a form.

accomplish meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

accomplish in Hindi

to finish successfully
सफलता saphaltā, उपलब्धि uplabdhi

accomplish in Tamil

செய், நிறைவேற்று, முடித்துவிடு, பலதிறட்பண்புகளால் நிறைவாக்கு

accomplish in Urdu

انجام دینا, مکمل کرنا, پار اترنا, پورا کرنا, سر کرنا

accomplish in Bengali

to accomplish, finish
মিটা miṭa
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accomplish in Telugu
తేలించు tēliñcu
accomplish in Malayalam
പൂർത്തിയാക്കുക, നേടുക, കൈവരിക്കുക, നിറവേറ്റുക
accomplish in Kannada
ಕಯ್ಗೂಡು, ಕೈಗೂಡು, ಕಡೆಸಲ್ಲು, ನೆರವೇರು
accomplish in Punjabi
ਸੁਆਰਨਾ suāranā
accomplish in Sanskrit
साध्नोति sādhnoti
accomplish in Arabic
أَدَّى ʔaddā

Examples of accomplish in a sentence

  • The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.
  • If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:accomplishing.

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Synonyms of accomplish

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Forms of accomplish

third-person singular presentaccomplishes
present participleaccomplishing
past participleaccomplished
pastaccomplished

Past tense of accomplish: accomplished

Origin of accomplish

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.

Words formed from accomplish

Questions about accomplish

What does accomplish mean?
Accomplish means to finish successfully.
What is accomplish in Hindi?
Accomplish in Hindi is सफलता (saphaltā), उपलब्धि (uplabdhi). See Accomplish meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is accomplish?
Accomplish is a verb.
How do you pronounce accomplish?
Accomplish is pronounced /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of accomplish?
The past tense of accomplish is accomplished.

Words near accomplish in the dictionary

  1. accomplices
  2. accompliceship
  3. accomplicity
  4. accompliment
  5. accompliments
  6. accomplish
  7. accomplishable
  8. accomplished
  9. accomplishedly
  10. accomplishedst
  11. accomplisher

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: accomplish (page history and authors); accomplish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accomplish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মিটা (Bengali) (page history and authors); తేలించు (Telugu) (page history and authors); accomplish (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accomplish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸੁਆਰਨਾ (Punjabi) (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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