Accomplish vs Doing - What's the difference?
accomplish | doing |
To finish successfully.
To complete, as time or distance.
* That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
* He had accomplished half a league or more. -
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.
* This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
(archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
* The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
* It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. -
* These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. -
(obsolete) To gain; to obtain
:(Shakespeare)
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
As verbs the difference between accomplish and doing
is that accomplish is to finish successfully while doing is (rare|chiefly|netherlands|nonstandard).accomplish
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(Webster 1913)Verb
Synonyms
* do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry outExternal links
* * *doing
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Alternative forms
* (pedantic)Etymology 1
See (do).Noun
(en noun)- This is his doing . (= "He did it.")
