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[ verb ] put in effect
Examples "carry out a task" "execute the decision of the people" "He actioned the operation" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Only Bucky_Harris , the `` boy manager '' of Washington in 1924 , and Eddie_Dyer of the St._Louis Cardinals in 1946 had accomplished the feat . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives , however , from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world . (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)When they can take ten seconds to accomplish the descent , they will have the strength to chin_up . (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)Much of the older experimental work on respiratory infections was accomplished by very artificial procedures . In this case , then , the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack . Related terms complete effect do dispatch run consummate perfect get_over follow_through accomplishment fulfillment execution |
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[ verb ] to gain with effort
Examples : "she achieved her goal despite setbacks." Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)However , readers who accept Freud 's findings and believe that he has solved completely the mystery of dreams , should ponder over the following words in his Interpretation_Of_Dreams , Chapter 1 , : `` as_a_matter_of_fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in_any_case , and what_is_more , every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain , nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams '' . (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)Our major problem is what an enemy might accomplish in an initial attack on a target . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)`` Litigants and witnesses were put to the expense and inconvenience of going long distances to transact business ; public money spent ; justice delayed ; nothing accomplished , and the whole distribution of justice in this county seems to be an absolute farce '' . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)There was only one way to accomplish this : by design , by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept . I cannot accomplish this if you will not help me '' . |
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