Overview of verb finish

The verb finish has 6 senses

• complete, finish -- (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")


• finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish -- (finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again")


• end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (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")


• finish -- (provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly")


• eat up, finish, polish off -- (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes")


• finish -- (cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary")

Overview of adj finished

The adj finished has 5 senses

• finished -- ((of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state; "a finished product")


• finished -- (ended or brought to an end; "are you finished?"; "gave me the finished manuscript")


• finished -- ((of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected; "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"; "a finished violinist")


• finished -- (having a surface coating or finish applied; "the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones")


• finished, ruined -- (brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically")