verb
- Come or bring to a finish or an end.
- usage: "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"
- Finally be or do something.
- usage: "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
- Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.
- usage: "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"
- Provide with a finish.
- usage: "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly"
- synonyms: finish
- Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.
- usage: "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
- synonyms: eat up, finish, polish off
- Cause to finish a relationship with somebody.
- usage: "That finished me with Mary"
- synonyms: finish
adjective
- Of materials or goods. ( brought to the desired final state)
- usage: "a finished product"
- Ended or brought to an end.
- usage: "are you finished"; "gave me the finished manuscript"
- Of skills or the products of skills. ( brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected)
- usage: "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"; "a finished violinist"
- Having a surface coating or finish applied.
- usage: "the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones"
- Brought to ruin.
- usage: "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"
- synonyms: ruined
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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