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Done vs Accomplish - What's the difference?

done | accomplish |

As verbs the difference between done and accomplish

is that done is past participle of lang=en while accomplish is to finish successfully.

As an adjective done

is ready, fully cooked.

done

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
  • As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
  • In a state of having completed or finished an activity.
  • He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done ."
    They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
  • Being exhausted or fully spent.
  • When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
  • Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
  • He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
  • Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
  • I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done !
    What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!

    Derived terms

    * be done for * be done with it * done deal * get done for * overdone * well done

    Verb

    (head)
  • I have ''done'' my work.
  • (African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.
  • I done did my best to raise y'all.

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    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