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Accomplish vs Doing - What's the difference?

accomplish | doing |

As verbs the difference between accomplish and doing

is that accomplish is to finish successfully while doing is (rare|chiefly|netherlands|nonstandard).

accomplish

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

  • 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)
  • Synonyms

    * do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry out

    doing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (pedantic)

    Etymology 1

    See (do).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
  • This is his doing . (= "He did it.")

    Verb

    (head)
  • Etymology 2

    Onomatopœic.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
  • Synonyms
    * boing

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    * * * English onomatopoeias