to finish
Bring to close
To finish is to bring something to completion or reach the end of it: I need to finish this report by Friday.
You finish a race, finish your dinner, finish a book.
The sense extends to using up entirely: We finished the wine.
To finish someone off is to kill or defeat them decisively.
A finish is the final stage or the surface quality of something: a glossy finish, a photo finish.
As an adjective, finished means completed, or informally, ruined or done for: If this gets out, I'm finished.
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- endFinal portion or cessation
- concludeEnd or infer
- doneNo longer in progress
- wrapEnclose by winding around
wrap it up · close · accomplish · see it through · terminate · stop · halt · cease · call it a day · polish · last · through · over · exhaust · deplete · clinch · seal · cap
- Conclusion phrasesin conclusion, to conclude, in closing, to sum up, in summary
- sequence wordsfirst, second, third, next, fourth