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adjective
1.
Having every necessary or normal part or component or step.  "A complete wardrobe" , "A complete set of the Britannica" , "A complete set of china" , "A complete defeat" , "A complete accounting"
2.
Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities.  Synonym: consummate.  "Consummate happiness" , "A consummate performance"
3.
Highly skilled.  Synonym: accomplished.  "A complete musician"
4.
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.  Synonyms: arrant, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter.  "A complete coward" , "A consummate fool" , "A double-dyed villain" , "Gross negligence" , "A perfect idiot" , "Pure folly" , "What a sodding mess" , "Stark staring mad" , "A thoroughgoing villain" , "Utter nonsense" , "The unadulterated truth"
5.
Having come or been brought to a conclusion.  Synonyms: all over, concluded, ended, over, terminated.  "The affair is over, ended, finished" , "The abruptly terminated interview"
verb
(past & past part. completed; pres. part. completing)
1.
Come or bring to a finish or an end.  Synonym: finish.  "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree" , "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"
2.
Bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements.
3.
Complete or carry out.  Synonyms: discharge, dispatch.
4.
Complete a pass.  Synonym: nail.
5.
Write all the required information onto a form.  Synonyms: fill in, fill out, make out.  "Make out a form"



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... dinner—which had been cooked with bits of wood which Betsey had picked up here and there—was ready, Asaph walked into the front yard of his sister's house attired in a complete suit of new clothes, thick and substantial in texture, pepper-and-salt in color, and as long in the legs and arms as the most fastidious could desire. He had on a new shirt and a clean collar, with a handsome black silk cravat tied in a great bow; and a new felt ...
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