completing

Seeing it through

Completing is bringing something to its finish or making it whole.

You complete a task by doing what remains: I'm completing the report tonight.

Forms and applications are completed by filling in required information.

Completing can also mean adding what's missing: The final piece completed the puzzle.

finishing

finalizing

Making something permanent

accomplishing · executing · polishing · perfecting · resolving · settling · culminating · discharging · clinching · rounding off

fulfillment

satisfaction

State of fulfilled desires

realization · flourishing · well-being · wholeness · serenity · actualization · closure · resolution · peace · accomplishment

achievement

milestone

Notable event marking progress

victory · breakthrough · pinnacle · culmination · capstone · masterpiece · certification · diploma · badge · recognition

wholeness

filling in

Temporary replacement duty

making whole · puzzle piece · full set · entirety · totality · integration · unifying · bringing together · jigsawing · assembling

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Opposites
process stage

completingstarting

Initiating an action

beginning · commencing · initiating · launching · opening

task outcome

completingfailing

Flaw in one's nature

botching · bungling · blowing · flunking · miscarrying

continuation vs. cessation

completingabandoning

Leaving permanently behind

quitting · halting · stopping · discontinuing · aborting

Phrases
Family

completion, completions, incompletion, completionist

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G