COMPLETE, COMPLETED, COMPLETENESS, COMPLETING, COMPLETION
ADJECTIVES
► ACCOMPLETE complete, filled up → a1450 obs.
► AIRTIGHT complete, unassailable → L19 US colloq.
► ALMIGHTY complete, outright; very great; enormous; considerable → 1824 colloq.
► APAST completed, finished → 1941 Amer. dial.
► AROUND THE BEND having completed the longest, most difficult, or crucial part of a task → 20C Amer. sl.
► BODACIOUS complete, thorough, utter, absolute, arrant → 1887 Amer. dial.
► CROWNED unfailingly effective, perfect; also, completed, consummated → 1405
► DEAD complete, utter → E17
► DEAD-BANG complete, certain, total, utter → 1985 Amer. sl.
► DEAD-SET complete, utter → 1965 Aust. sl.
► DEADWOOD complete, absolute, unequivocal → M19 US sl.
► FAIR complete, undoubted, thorough, absolute → 1872
► FULL-BLOWN complete, fully developed → 1602
► FULL-ON complete, maximum, absolute, very → 1970 US
► GUNGOO complete, entire, genuine → 20C Royal Navy usage
► HALE complete, entire, whole → a1300
► HANDSOME complete, thorough → 19C Eng. dial.
► HOME AND HOSED completed a task → 20C Aust. sl.
► HOME FREE having completed a task → 1960s Amer. sl.
► IMPARTIAL complete, entire, partial or fragmentary → a1716 obs.
► IN THE CAN completed, finished → 1934 US sl., orig. film jargon
► MADE completed successfully → 1950s US sl.
► NEAT complete, thorough → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OUT-AND-OUT complete, thoroughgoing, unqualified → 1812
► PLENITUDINARY complete, thorough, full; characterized by fullness or completeness → 1647
► PROPER complete or thorough → c1430 colloq., chiefly Brit.
► QUADRATE complete, perfect → 1608 obs.
► QUIT complete, clean → 1583 obs.
► REGULAR complete, thorough, real → 1836 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RIGHT-DOWN absolute, complete, thoroughgoing; also, simple, straightforward → 1586
► RIGHTEOUS complete, utter; out-and-out → 1940 US sl.
► SATURATE complete, perfect → 1682 obs.
► SOLID complete, full, entire, esp. of time → M19
► TEETOTAL complete, entire; perfect → 1884
► THICK complete, thorough, downright → 1900 Eng. dial.
► UP-AND-DOWN complete, absolute → M19 sl.
► UP-AND-DOWN-STAIRS complete, absolute → M19 sl.
INTERJECTIONS
► KENO! used to signify that something is successfully completed → 1890 Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► ABSOLUTENESS a being complete or finished; completeness; perfection → 1551 obs.
► ACCOMPLEMENT anything that completes or perfects, that adds grace or ornament to body or mind → 1587 obs.
► ADIMPLETION completion, fulfilment → 1650 obs.
► END-ALL a completion; a finishing stroke → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IMPARTIALITY completeness → a1716 obs.
► IRKER a finishing stroke → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAST HAND the finishing stroke or touch → 1614 obs.
► PERFECTUATION completion; accomplishment → 1859 obs.
► PERIMPLISHMENT fulfilment, completion → 1554 obs.
► THROUGHER ► THRUFFER anything complete and thorough of its kind; a convincing argument → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TOPPING UP completing, bringing to perfection → 1890
► WRAP-UP a completion; a final treatment, a summary; the end, the conclusion → 1950s Amer. sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► PERFICIENT a person who accomplishes or completes something → 1641 obs.
VERBS
► BEAT THE CLOCK to complete a task before a stated time → 1885
► BUTTON UP to complete or conclude something, esp. a business transaction, satisfactorily or successfully; to finish, to finalize → 1906 colloq.
► CALL FOR THE BUTTER to have completed a task or arrived at your destination →1975 US sl.
► FLANGE UP to finish, to complete → 1949 Amer. dial.
► FULLCOME to carry out, to accomplish; to complete → 1477 obs.
► FULL-DO to complete, to fulfil, to accomplish → 1000 obs.
► FULLEND to bring to an end, to a conclusion, or to fruition; to complete, to accomplish; to fulfil → 1000 obs.
► FULLFREME to bring to completion; to accomplish, to perfect; to fulfil → 1000 obs.
► FURNISH to accomplish, to complete, to fulfil; to bring about, to ensure → 1477 obs.
► ICE ► ICE OFF to complete, to round off → 1980s sl.
► LICK INTO SHAPE to bring to completion or perfection through discipline, hard work, etc. → 19C colloq., orig. US
► MOP UP to complete a task, etc. → 20C colloq.
► PERFECTIONATE to make complete or perfect, to bring to perfection → 1570
► PERFINISH to finish off thoroughly, to complete; to kill → 1523 obs.
► PERIMPLENISH to fulfil, to carry out; to accomplish, to complete → 1499 obs.
► PERIMPLISH to fulfil, to carry out; to accomplish, to complete → 1468 obs.
► SUM to bring to completion or perfection; to consummate → c1592 obs.
► TERMINE to complete, to bring to a conclusion; to put and end to, to cause to cease; to terminate → c1390 obs.
► WRAP to complete, to finish → 1970s Amer. movies & television usage
► WRAP UP to complete, to finish → 1926 Amer. sl.