completive in English
noun
1
a word or morpheme that adds a sense of completeness to a word or phrase (e.g., up in the phrase break up ).
Particles are added, usually as completives and intensives, to two and three-syllable verbs of Latin origin: contract out, divide off/up, level off, measure off/out, select out, separate off/out.
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1. Abide (v.) Old English abidan, gebidan "remain, wait, wait for, delay, remain behind," from ge-completive prefix (denoting onward motion; see a-(1)) + bidan "bide, remain, wait, dwell" (see bide).