finish with sth
— phrasal verb with finish uk/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/us/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/verb
to stop using or needing something:
Have you finished with that magazine?
More examples
- "Have you finished with the sticky tape?" "Yes. thanks - you can have it now."
- Please put the scissors back in the drawer when you've finished with them.
- If everyone has finished with the tomato sauce, I'll put it away.
- Dad won't be finished with the car until late, so I'm afraid you can't borrow it tonight.
- If you've finished with the gravy, could you pass it down this end of the table?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- let sb be idiom
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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