COMPLETE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of complete in English completeverb [ T ] uk /kəmˈpliːt/ us /kəmˈpliːt/

complete verb [T] (MAKE WHOLE)

Add to word list Add to word list A2 [ T ] to make whole or perfect: Complete the sentence with one of the adjectives provided. He only needs two more cards to complete the set. All she needed to complete her happiness was a baby. A2 [ T ] to write all the details asked for on a form or other document: Have you completed your application form yet?

• At the last minute, we roped in a couple of spectators to complete the team.
• I need two more vases to complete the collection.
• The baby completed our family.
• Some heavy curtains completed the furnishings in the living room.
• Her family completed the list of guests.

Filling and completing

• backfill
• bow
• box ticking
• brick
• brick something up phrasal verb
• brim
• infuse something with something
• jam
• load something up
• occupancy
• occupy
• overcrowd
• plug
• run through something phrasal verb
• saturable
• squeeze (someone/something) in/squeeze (someone/something) into something phrasal verb
• stuffing
• suffuse
• tank
• tie

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complete verb [T] (FINISH)

A2 [ T ] to finish doing something: He's just completed filming his 17th feature film. The palace took over 20 years to complete. She will complete her studies in France. to finish something

• finishDid you finish your homework?
• endWhat time does the concert end?
• completeHave you completed the questionnaire?
• concludeShe concluded her speech by thanking everyone who had helped her.
• polish offHe's just polished off two huge bowls of pasta.
• wind upIt's time to wind up the game now.

See more results » [ T ]   sports   specialized in team sports such as football, American football, and rugby, to successfully pass the ball to another player: complete a pass He completed passes of 48 and 47 yards to the wide receiver. He was second only to Redknapp for percentage of completed passes in the Premiership. See also completion [ I or T ]   law   UK specialized (US close) to legally finish the change of ownership of a house or other property from a seller to a buyer: Is it possible to exchange contracts and complete on the same day? Your solicitor will let you know if there are any outstanding fees you need to pay them when you complete. You will have a lot of work to do to complete the sale, but your buyer and their solicitors have an even bigger job.complete on He has already completed on his new home, a Georgian property in Shropshire. After contracts are exchanged, there are still a few things that need doing before you can complete on the sale. Lawyers warn that people who cannot complete on a property transaction could be sued.

• I have a lot of reading assignments to complete before the end of term.
• It is not practicable to complete the tunnel before the end of the year.
• How do you propose to complete the project in such a short time scale?
• Tick off each item on the list as you complete it.
• She managed to complete her last film well within budget.
• They struggled to complete passes, bobbled pucks and lost battles.
• One seller took just 12 days to complete on his property after accepting an offer, compared with the average 56 days for a normal sale.

Causing something to end

• abandon
• abandonment
• all good things (must) come to an end idiom
• and have done with it idiom
• be over the hump idiom
• brake
• cure
• freeze
• get something out of the way idiom
• get something over with phrasal verb
• give over phrasal verb
• grind to a halt idiom
• halt
• slam on the brakes
• snap
• snap out of something phrasal verb
• snuff something out phrasal verb
• stamp
• stamp on something phrasal verb
• stamp something out phrasal verb

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General terms used in ball sports American football Football/soccer Rugby Changing homes & moving completeadjective uk /kəmˈpliːt/ us /kəmˈpliːt/

complete adjective (VERY GREAT)

B1 [ before noun ] very great or to the largest degree possible: The man's a complete fool! I need a break, a complete change of scene.complete and utter I made a complete and utter mess of it!

• I have complete confidence in her. She'll be perfect for the job.
• All replies will be treated with complete confidentiality.
• At school she had complete contempt for all her teachers.
• His answer demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the question.
• The evening was a complete disaster.

Linguistics: very & extreme

• abjectly
• absolutely
• absolutely fabulous
• abundantly
• abundantly clear
• beyond
• enormously
• exceedingly
• extraordinarily
• imagine
• indeed
• particularly
• richly
• showstopping
• strongly held
• stupefyingly
• super
• super-duper
• totally
• violently

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complete adjective (WHOLE)

B1 with all the parts: the complete works of Oscar Wildecomplete with The report comes complete with (= including) diagrams and colour photographs. Sun, sand, and romance - her holiday was complete.

• She bought me the complete dramatic works of Brecht for my birthday.
• We are now offering you the chance to buy the complete set of pans at half price.
• Our complete range of carpets is on display in our showroom.
• If we all club together, we'll be able to get her the complete dinner set.
• The demonstrators seemed to represent a complete cross-section of society - male and female, old and young, rich and poor.

Complete and whole

• (all) in one piece idiom
• aggregate
• all or nothing idiom
• all told idiom
• all-in-one
• all-inclusive
• fell
• fibre
• full strength
• full-fledged
• full-length
• fully
• fully fledged
• systemic
• thorough
• thoroughgoingly
• thoroughly
• through and through idiom
• to the last idiom
• totality

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complete adjective (SPORT)

In team sports such as football, American football, and rugby, a complete pass is one where one player successfully passes the ball to another player: Jones finished the game with two complete passes for 19 yards.

• They only managed three complete passes across those three restarts.
• He is the player with the most wins, touchdown passes, and complete passes.
• He managed a pass success rate of only 63% with just 12 complete passes.

General terms used in ball sports

• aggregate score
• assist
• attacking
• back pass
• backhanded
• defend
• dive
• hat trick
• in
• in bounds idiom
• inbounds pass
• indirect free kick
• interception
• penalty
• slot
• smash-mouth
• spacing
• split the defence idiom
• spot kick
• tackle

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American football Football/soccer Rugby (Definition of complete from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

complete | American Dictionary

completeadjective us /kəmˈplit/

complete adjective (WHOLE)

Add to word list Add to word list containing all the parts or pieces; whole: a complete set of dishes the complete works of Dickens We wanted a complete record of what everyone said.

complete adjective (VERY GREAT)

very great, without limit, or to the largest degree possible: The trip began in complete confusion. She gave me a look of complete indifference. Toby and Alfredo are complete opposites.

completely

adverb us /kəmˈplit·li/ To be completely honest, I was too scared to say anything. completeverb [ T ] us /kəmˈplit/

complete verb [T] (FINISH)

to finish doing something: John has completed 15 marathons. She completed three years of college, and then took a year off.

complete verb [T] (MAKE WHOLE)

to supply all the parts or pieces needed to make something whole: She needed one more course to complete the requirements for a teaching degree.

completion

noun [ U ] us /kəmˈpli·ʃən/ He was the architect who supervised the completion of the hotel. (Definition of complete from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of complete

complete The completed surveys were collected at each site by the collaborator, who also tracked the total number of surveys that had been distributed. From the Cambridge English Corpus At that time, only 21 percent of the engineering drawings had been completed, and it was still unknown whether the design would meet the requirements. From the Cambridge English Corpus In addition, compliance testing of the control technology is also completed in this phase. From the Cambridge English Corpus The program completed 3,070 initial engineering drawings at its critical design review in 1995, about 26 percent of the eventual drawings needed. From the Cambridge English Corpus Although the field work for this study was completed before these books appeared, the writing up has been done with these studies in mind. From the Cambridge English Corpus Currently, the patient is on warfarin, 2.5 mg daily, while completing a 6-mo warfarin regimen. From the Cambridge English Corpus Evaluation of metabolic homeostasis, lipid profile, and kidney and myocardial function must be completed before surgery. From the Cambridge English Corpus Further, effective performance and risk management systems must be established, and work must be completed on threat and vulnerability assessments. From the Cambridge English Corpus The carving is essentially completed before it is moved from the quarry area. From the Cambridge English Corpus Preparations were completed to cash it after the election. From the Cambridge English Corpus The "dialogue" that results from such activity is in fact aesthetic because its elements are completed aesthetically. From the Cambridge English Corpus A third complex was under construction in 1225, and completed in 1260, consisting of common rooms, outbuildings, refectory, dormitory, cloister, kitchen, bakehouse and stables. From the Cambridge English Corpus The self-administered questionnaire (which was completed between the first and the second interview) included a dietary inventory and some mental health and attitudinal scales. From the Cambridge English Corpus All questionnaires were read aloud, completed by the researcher and related to the preceding 7 days. From the Cambridge English Corpus The first interview was completed by 2199 subjects, 58 % of those eligible to participate. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of complete These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of complete?

Translations of complete

in Chinese (Traditional) 使完善, 使完整, 使完全… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 使完善, 使完整, 使完全… See more in Spanish completar, rellenar, terminar… See more in Portuguese completar, preencher, terminar… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian पुर्ण /संपूर्ण, पूर्ण करणे, तयार होणे… See more 全部の, 全くの, （物、こと）を完成させる… See more eksiksiz, tam, bütün… See more complet/-ète, total/-ale, terminer… See more complet, total, acabar… See more volledig, af, voltooien… See more முழுதாக அல்லது சரியானதாக ஆக்க, ஒரு படிவம் அல்லது வேறு ஆவணத்தில் கேட்கப்பட்ட அனைத்து விவரங்களையும் எழுத, ஏதாவது செய்து முடிக்க… See more पूरा करना, (फॉर्म या अन्य दस्तवेज) भरना, काम खत्म करना… See more સંપૂર્ણ, સમસ્ત, પરિપૂર્ણ… See more fuldstændig, komplet, grundig… See more komplett, fullständig, total… See more lengkap, betul-betul, selesai… See more vollständig, völlig, fertig… See more komplett, fullstendig, total… See more مکمل کرنا, پورا کرنا, کسی فارم یا دستاویز کو پُر کرنا… See more повний, закінчений, абсолютний… See more సంపూర్ణంగా లేక లోపం లేకుండా చేయడం, ఒక ఫారం లేదా ఒక దస్తావేజులో అడిగిన వివరాలన్నింటినీ రాయడం, ఏదైనా పనిని పూర్తి చేయడం… See more সম্পূর্ণ করে তোলা অথবা নিখুঁত করে তোলা, ফর্ম অথবা অন্য কোনো নথি ভরার কাজ করা, কোনো কাজ সম্পূর্ণ করা… See more úplný, celkový, naprostý… See more lengkap, menyeluruh, selesai… See more ทั้งหมด, ที่ทำอย่างสมบูรณ์, เสร็จสิ้น… See more đầy đủ, toàn diện, hoàn thành… See more kompletny, gotowy, ukończony… See more 완벽한, 완성된, (강조) 철저히… See more completo, completare, finire… See more Need a translator?

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  • Verb 
    • complete (MAKE WHOLE)
    • complete (FINISH)
  • Adjective 
    • complete (VERY GREAT)
    • complete (WHOLE)
    • complete (SPORT)
• American   
  • Adjective 
    • complete (WHOLE)
    • complete (VERY GREAT)
  • Adverb 
    • completely
  • Verb 
    • complete (FINISH)
    • complete (MAKE WHOLE)
  • Noun 
    • completion
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