From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Perfect \Per"fect\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Perfected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perfecting}.] [L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere. See {Perfect}, adjective] To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. --1 John iv. 12.
Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species. --Locke.
{Perfecting press} (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.
Syn: To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed; "a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "perfected": SOL, accomplished, advanced, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, ameliorated, archetypical, at an end, beautified, bettered, canceled, civilized, classic, complete, concluded, consummate, converted, cultivated, cultured, dead, decided, defunct, deleted, developed, done, done for, done with, educated, embellished, ended, enhanced, enriched, exemplary, expert, expunged, extinct, fini, finished, fully developed, improved, kaput, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, over, polished, proficient, quintessential, refined, reformed, ripe, ripened, set at rest, settled, shot, terminated, through, through with, transfigured, transformed, virtuosic, washed up, wiped out, wound up, zapped
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