Finish (Verb)
Meaning 1
Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes".
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Verbs of eating and drinking.
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Meaning 2
Provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 3
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo".
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Verbs of being, having, spatial relations.
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- Discontinue
- Culminate
- Recess
- Run Short
- Conclude
- Disappear
- Lapse
- Go Out
- Turn Out
- Break
- Adjourn
- Pass Away
- Cut Out
- Close
- Come Out
- Vanish
- Run Out
- Climax
- Run Low
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Meaning 4
Finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 5
Cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 6
Come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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- Mop Up
- Finish Up
- Polish Off
- Action
- Carry Out
- Top
- Follow Out
- Implement
- Fulfil
- Finish Off
- Clear Up
- Round Out
- Follow Through
- See Through
- Carry Through
- Fulfill
- Close
- Go Through With
- Execute
- Get Through
- Put Through