Complete the task
Finish up means to complete something, especially the final portion of a task or activity.
It often implies wrapping up what remains: Let me finish up this email and I'll be right with you.
The phrase can also mean to consume the rest of something: Finish up your vegetables.
Finish up is largely interchangeable with finish alone, though the addition of up adds a sense of thoroughness or finality to the completion.
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Complete the task
Finish up means to complete something, especially the final portion of a task or activity.
It often implies wrapping up what remains: Let me finish up this email and I'll be right with you.
The phrase can also mean to consume the rest of something: Finish up your vegetables.
Finish up is largely interchangeable with finish alone, though the addition of up adds a sense of thoroughness or finality to the completion.
1. completion — wrap up, Complete and conclude; complete (Lacking nothing, fully done); finalize (Settle decisively); conclude (End or infer); polish off · round off · tie up · button up · close out · wind up · knock out · mop up · tidy up · cap off
2. consumption — eat up, Consume entirely; drink up (Consume liquid completely); use up (Consume until gone); empty (Holding nothing inside); clear · polish off · drain · deplete · exhaust · consume · devour · scarf down · wolf down · down
completion statusfinish up ≠ start To set going; abandon · begin · quit · commence · give up
accomplish: accomplish, achieve, complete, do, execute; eating phrases: dig in, chow down, bon appetit, eat up, gobble up; hush commands: shh, shhh, ssh, hush up, be silent
finish, final, finished, unfinished, finishing, finishes, finite, finisher, finishers
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