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)

Verb

To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish.

:* 1819' (though spoken by a character in the 12-century): “It seems to me, reverend father,” said the knight, “that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have '''thriven with you marvellously.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe

To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.

Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived .

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