accomplishverb [ T ]
uk/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/us/əˈkɑːm.plɪʃ/C1 to finish something successfully or to achieve something:
The students accomplished the task in less than ten minutes.
She accomplished such a lot during her visit.
I feel as if I've accomplished nothing since I left my job.
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- You can actually accomplish a lot more by gentle persuasion.
- If you are fit, the climb can be accomplished in less than three hours.
- He believes you can accomplish a lot in a relatively short space of time.
- New technology means that astronomers can accomplish in a single night what once took years.
- The new coach told the press that he believed his team could accomplish great things.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- be a hard/tough act to follow idiom
- bear
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- have your/its moments idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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