Other forms: accomplished, accomplishing, accomplishes
To accomplish is to finish something successfully. Accomplish the task, mission accomplished, accomplish a great deal.
The finishing is the point — you can work at something for years and accomplish nothing, because the word requires completion. Accomplished as an adjective means skilled. The Latin complere means to fill up or complete.
1verbaccomplishTo finish something successfully.
“We accomplished everything on our list before lunch.”
accomplish is a completing.
Old French acomplir comes from Latin complere, to fill up or complete. Complete is the same root.
Proto-Indo-European
*pleh₁-
Vulgar Latin
*(ac)complīre
Old French
acompliss-
Middle English
accomplisshen
English, today
accomplish
From Middle English accomplisshen, acomplissen, from Old French acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from Vulgar Latin (ac)complīre, from Latin compleo (“fill up/out, complete”). First attested in the late 14th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA