complete
/kəmˈpliːt/ verb B1- To finish; to make done; to reach the end. · He completed the assignment on time.
- To make whole or entire. · The last chapter completes the book nicely.
- To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
- to accomplish every significant achievement within a field
Plural complete · He/she/it completes · Past completed · Past participle completed · -ing form completing
Verb forms
- Base form
- complete
- He/she/it
- completes
- Past
- completed
- Past participle
- completed
- -ing form
- completing
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The mere sight of his excellent appetite was an assurance of success; for I had very clear recollections of days and nights without a thought of food, when his baffled mind had chafed before some problem while his thin, eager features became more attenuated with the asceticism of complete mental concentration.
“I have every sympathy with you, madam, and should strongly urge you to have some confidence in the common sense of our jurisdiction and to take the police voluntarily into your complete confidence.
It was not from want of confidence in me—there was the most complete love and confidence between us—but it was out of his desire to keep all alarm away from me.
White Mason, I claim the right to work in my own way and give my results at my own time—complete rather than in stages.”
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