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How to spell complete
What it means: To finish or make something whole.
In a sentence: I need to complete my puzzle before dinner.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as complet or complite.
Same family: completely, completion, incomplete, completed, completeness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "complete" comes from Latin "completus," from "complere," meaning "to fill up" or "to finish filling." Over time, English speakers also began using it informally as an intensifier, as in a "complete disaster" or a "complete fool."
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