finish
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(noun) the act of finishing; "the speaker's finish was greeted with applause" |
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Synonyms: finishing |
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Related Words: closing, completion, culmination, mop up, windup |
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Antonyms: start |
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(verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary" |
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Related Words: end, terminate |
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(verb) provide with a finish, as of furniture, for example |
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Related Words: broom, coat, dress, surface |
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(noun) the absolute defeat and death of persons on one side of a conflict; "it was a fight to the finish"; "he will be the finish of me" |
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Related Words: death, decease |
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(noun) the ending of a contest (as a race); "it was an exciting finish"; "I didn't stay for the close of the tournament" |
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Synonyms: close |
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Related Words: closing curtain, conclusion, ending, finale, finis, place, show, win |
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(verb) 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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Synonyms: complete |
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Related Words: accomplish, carry out, carry through, clear up, end, execute, finish off, finish out, finish up, follow through, fulfil, fulfill, get through, go through, implement, mop up, polish off, put through, round out, terminate |
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(verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" |
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Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
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Related Words: eat, put away, tuck away, tuck in |
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(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense: "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
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Synonyms: cease, end, terminate |
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Related Words: adjourn, break, break up, climax, close, come out, culminate, cut out, die hard, disappear, discontinue, end up, fetch up, finish up, go, go away, go out, land up, lapse, pass away, recess, run low, run short, turn out, vanish, wind up |
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(noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface; "the boat had a metallic finish" |
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Synonyms: coating, finishing |
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Related Words: decorativeness, glaze |
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(verb) finally be or do something, as in "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart" |
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Synonyms: end up, wind up |
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Related Words: act, move |
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(noun) the concluding time; "he awaited the grand finale"; "he stayed until the finish"; "he left before the conclusion" |
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Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point, terminus |
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Related Words: point, point in time |
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