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ACCOMPLISH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in effect

Example:

He actioned the operation

Synonyms:

accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil; fulfill

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "accomplish" is one way to...):

complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)

effect; effectuate; set up (produce)

Verb group:

carry out; follow out; follow through; follow up; go through with; implement; put through (pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accomplish"):

get over (to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end)

run (carry out)

consummate (make perfect; bring to perfection)

consummate (fulfill sexually)

do; perform (get (something) done)

complete; discharge; dispatch (complete or carry out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

accomplishable (capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do)

accomplishment (the action of accomplishing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To gain with effort

Example:

she achieved her goal despite setbacks

Synonyms:

accomplish; achieve; attain; reach

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "accomplish" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accomplish"):

score (get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance)

get to; make; progress to; reach (reach a goal)

begin (achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative)

come to; strike (attain)

culminate (reach the highest or most decisive point)

compass (bring about; accomplish)

average (achieve or reach on average)

finagle; manage; wangle (achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

accomplishment (the action of accomplishing something)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Jo rather prided herself upon her shopping capabilities, and particularly wished to impress her escort with the neatness and dispatch with which she would accomplish the business.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The pain management criterion would be satisfied/accomplished with any one of these activities and would be associated to each of the three via a different DefinedCriterionGroupOptionRelationship.

(Defined Criterion Group Option Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Consequently, an overall reduction in chronic inflammation and autoimmune reactions are accomplished.

(Clocortolone Pivalate, NCI Thesaurus)

Mitotic cell cycle progression is accomplished through a reproducible sequence of events, DNA replication (S phase) and mitosis (M phase) separated temporally by gaps known as G1 and G2 phases.

(Cell Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

CID is accomplished by selecting an ion of interest with the mass analyzer and then subjecting that ion to collisions with neutral atoms or molecules.

(Collision-Induced Dissociation, NCI Thesaurus)

"I, too, have not been idle," Brissenden proclaimed, after hearing Martin's account of the work he had accomplished.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To accomplish that, they developed a gel containing more hedgehog molecules that could be applied to broken bones.

(Protein Discovery Could Help Heal Bones in Diabetics, VOA)

Holiday time is always hectic, but this full moon will give you a chance to pull back, catch your breath, and decide what you’d like to accomplish in the coming year, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Then all who heard this rejoiced, and the lord of the castle said he would adopt him as a son if he accomplished it successfully.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The feat was accomplished by accessing two untapped streams of satellite data.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)