completion

Roget category 729

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.5. Results of voluntary action
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#729. Completion

noun

completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment — performance, execution — despatch, dispatch — consummation, culmination — finish, conclusion — close etc. (end) 67 — terminus etc. (arrival) 292 — winding up — finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result — final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke — last finish, coup de grace — crowning of the edifice — coping-stone, keystone — missing link etc. 53 — superstructure, ne plus ultra [Lat.], work done, fait accompli [Fr.].
elaboration — finality — completeness etc. 52.

verb

effect, effectuate — accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out — bring to maturity, bring to perfection — perfect, complete — elaborate.
do, execute, make — go through, get through — work out, enact — bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.
despatch, dispatch — knock off, finish off, polish off — make short work of — dispose of, set at rest — perform, discharge, fulfill, realize — put in practice, put in force — carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution — make good — be as good as one's word.
do thoroughly, not do by halves, go the whole hog — drive home — be in at the death etc. (persevere) 604.1; carry through, play out, exhaust — fill the bill [U.S.].
finish, bring to a close etc. (end) 67 — wind up, stamp, clinch, seal, set the seal on, put the seal — give the final touch etc. n.. to — put the last, put the finishing hand to, put the finishing touches on — crown, crown all — cap.
ripen, culminate — come to a head, come to a crisis — come to its end — die a natural death, die of old age — run its course, run one's race — touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal — reach etc. (arrive) 292 — get in the harvest.

adjective

completing, final — concluding, conclusive — crowning etc. v. — exhaustive.
done, completed etc. v. — done for, sped, wrought out — highly wrought etc. (preparation) 673 — thorough etc. 52 — ripe etc. (ready) 673.

adverb

completely etc. (thoroughly) 52 — to crown all, out of hand.

phrase

the race is run — actum est [Lat.] — finis coronat opus [Lat.] — consummatum est [Lat.] — c'en est fait [Fr.] — it is all over — the game is played out, the bubble has burst — aussitot dit aussitot fait [Fr.] — aut non tentaris aut perfice [Lat.] [Ovid].

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