The first half of his task was successfully accomplished but the more difficult still remained.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He tied her up, therefore, that she might have no chance of warning Sir Henry, and he hoped, no doubt, that when the whole countryside put down the baronet’s death to the curse of his family, as they certainly would do, he could win his wife back to accept an accomplished fact and to keep silent upon what she knew.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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— proficient as the result of practice or training
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— good at doing something that needs a lot of skill, for example in art, music, or sport
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2 uses of ‘accomplished’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle