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< Middle English compleet (“‘full, complete’”) < Latin completus, pp. of complere (“‘to fill up, fill full, fulfil, complete’”) < com- + plere (“‘to fill’”), akin to full: see full and plenty and cf. deplete, replete. Cf. also complement, compliment.
Alternative spellings
- compleat (archaic)
Pronunciation
Verb
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Infinitive to complete |
Third person singular completes |
Simple past completed |
Past participle completed |
Present participle completing |
to complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
- (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- He completed the assignment on time.
- (transitive) To make whole or entire.
- The last chapter completes the book nicely.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
Antonyms
Adjective
complete (comparative more complete, superlative most complete)
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Positive complete |
Comparative more complete |
Superlative most complete |
- With everything included.
- It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.
- (analysis, of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges
- (algebra, of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
with everything included
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External links
- complete in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- complete in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Italian
Adjective
complete pl.
- Feminine form of completo.
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