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Verb: finish finish- Come or bring to a finish or an end
"He finished the dishes"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours" - complete - Finally be or do something
- finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up - Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- end, stop, terminate, cease - Provide with a finish
"The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly" - Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
- eat up, polish off - Cause to finish a relationship with somebody
"That finished me with Mary" Noun: finish finish- A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
"the boat had a metallic finish"; "he applied a coat of a clear finish"; "when the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly" - coating, finishing - The temporal end; the concluding time
"the market was up at the finish" - stopping point, finale, finis, last, conclusion, close - A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
"almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art" - polish, refinement, culture, cultivation - The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
"a crowd assembled at the finish" - destination, goal - Designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)
"excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the winner is the team with the most points at the finish" - The downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict)
"booze will be the finish of him"; "it was a fight to the finish" - Event whose occurrence ends something
"when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" - ending, conclusion - (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed)
"the wine has a nutty flavour and a pleasant finish" - The act of finishing
"his best finish in a major tournament was third" - finishing
Sounds like: Finnish Derived forms: finishing, finishes, finished See also: finisher Type of: act, closing, coat, completion, culmination, decorativeness, downfall, eat, end, ending, flawlessness, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, happening, mop up, move, natural event, ne plus ultra, occurrence, occurrent, perfection, ruin, ruination, surface, taste, taste perception, taste sensation, terminal, terminate, windup Antonym: start Encyclopedia: Finish |