Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To succeed in doing (a task, for example); carry out or complete. synonym: perform.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To complete; finish; reach the end of; bring to pass; actually do: as, he works hard, but accomplishes nothing.
- To bring about by performance or realization; execute; carry out; fulfil: as, to
accomplish a vow, promise, purpose, or prophecy. - Hence To gain; obtain as the result of exertion.
- To make complete by furnishing what is wanting: as— To equip or provide with material things.
- To equip or furnish mentally; fit by education or training.
- Synonyms and Execute, Achieve, etc. (see
perform ), complete, finish, consummate, succeed in, work out, fulfil, realize, bring to pass, end.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To complete, as time or distance.
- transitive verb To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill.
- transitive verb To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
- transitive verb obsolete To gain; to obtain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
finish successfully . - verb transitive To complete, as time or distance.
- verb 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.
- verb transitive, archaic To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
- verb transitive, obsolete To gain; to obtain. - Shakespeare
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put in effect
- verb to gain with effort
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What they are really trying to accomplish is to deny any coverage to any woman who gets an abortion whether she has additional private insurance or pays out of pocket.
Think Progress » Catholic nuns break with bishops and urge passage of health care reform. 2010
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The only thing she's likely to accomplish is to destroy the Democratic Party.
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The first thing any rifle/cartridge combo has to accomplish is to make a hole where you point it.
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I think all we really want to accomplish is to provide ways — wikis, email, blogs, you tell me — for people to more readily communicate their needs and solutions.
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I think all we really want to accomplish is to provide ways — wikis, email, blogs, you tell me — for people to more readily communicate their needs and solutions.
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Dame Judy Dench, when asked by a British newspaper what she still wanted to accomplish in life, replied without skipping a beat: "The only thing I want to accomplish is to go back to Newfoundland."
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Everything she has tried to accomplish is still unresolved.
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On the most optimistic view, all that Obamacare can accomplish is what, in objective fact, it aims to accomplish, namely, shift the burden of paying for medical care away from its immediate recipients.
Stromata Blog: 2010
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On the most optimistic view, all that Obamacare can accomplish is what, in objective fact, it aims to accomplish, namely, shift the burden of paying for medical care away from its immediate recipients.
The Obami Push On 2010
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The only good thing the "tea party" will accomplish is the break up the the republican party.
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