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Finish Off

Definition: Finish Off

Finish Off

Verb

1. Finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Finish Off

Synonyms: clear up (v), finish up (v), get through (v), mop up (v), polish off (v), wrap up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Finish Off

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Completion

Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Finish Off

English words defined with "finish off": To point a rope. (references)
Specialty definitions using "finish off": Marks in Grammar and Printing. (references)

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Photo Album: Finish Off

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine tools and the old grind stone, somewhat modernised--all find a part in our war production program. These workers finish off one of the many parts that go to make up the equipment that hel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Finish Off

Language Translations for "finish off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), përfundoj (accomplish, bring closer, button up, clinch, close, come out, complete, conclude, determine, do, end, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, lapse, perfect, push through, put through, reason, result, terminate, touch up, transact, wear), asgjësoj (annihilate, decimate, destroy, devour, disannul, eliminate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fast, finish, frustrate, liquidate, overturn, rub out, scathe, shake down, slate, smite, stultify, trample down, unbuild, undo, unmake, uproot). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

омахвам (kill). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dorazit (arrive, reach), dokonèit (accomplish, bring to an end, button up, complete, finalize, finish, get through, go through, perfect, push through), dohotovit (complete, finish). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

volbrengen (accomplish, achieve, finish), klaarkomen met (finish), beëindigen (accomodate, end, finish, terminate), afwerken (finish, work out). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

finfari (finish). (various references)

   

French

  

achever (finish). (various references)

   

German

  

fertig machen (wear down), schluss machen (pack in, sign off), erledigen (accomodate, attend, carry out, crank through, deal with, dispatch, do in, end, finish, get through with, handle, knock out, process, release, ruin, see to, settle, shatter, take care of, terminate, to attend, to deal with, to dispose, to finish, to see to, to take care of, wear out), den rest geben, austrinken (drink up, empty, to drink up), aufhören (break off, cease, close, desist, discontinue, end, finish, give over, lay off, leave off, quit, stop, termination, to break off, to cease, to stop), aufessen (eat up, to eat up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

végigvisz (finish, to take over). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menghabisi (end, spend, wipe out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spicciare (hurry up), smaltire (digest, dispose of, drain, sell off, swallow, take off, walk off), sbrigare (be quick, despatch, dispatch, get through, hurry up, polish off), rifinire (finish). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

遣っつける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off), 遣っ付ける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

やっつける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inishfay offay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

terminar (accomodate, close, come to an end, cut off, discontinue, end, end up, expire, finish, get through, nail down, pull the plug, squelch, stop, terminate), destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), completar (accomplish, cap, complement, complete, fill, fill in, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, implement, integrate, piece, round, supplement). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

завершать (bring to a close, bring to a conclusion, carry out, complete, completes, consummate, crown, finalize, finish, perfect, terminate, wrap up), покончить (be through with, do aware, do away, put the kibosh on). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

terminar (accomodate, break, break off, call it a day, close up, come, complete, conclude, discontinue, dispose of, end, end up, expire, finish, follow up, go out, leave off, let up, sign off, stay, stop, terminate, throw over). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vara färdig (finish up), upphöra (cease, come to an end, desist, end, expire, finish up, give up, go, lapse, pass, pass over, stop), tillintetgöra (annihilate, crush, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, finish up), ta död på (finish up, kill, scotch), sluta (be through with, cease, close, come to an end, conclude, discontinue, drop it, drop out, end, end up, expire, finish, finish up, fold up, give over, leave off, let up, quit, re-energise, re-energize, sag, stop, stop it, terminate, turn out), göra slut på (cut off, demolish, destroy, end, finish up, put the lid on, use up, wear out), avsluta (balance, close, conclude, end, finalize, finish, terminate, transact). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

убивати (deaden, homicide, kill, murder, pick off, put to death, slay, thug), завершувати (accomplish, cap, carry out, close, conclude, consummate, fulfil, integrate, perfect, round, ultimate, wind up). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Finish Off

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Finish Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-f-h-i-i-n-o-s"

-2 letters: finfish.

-3 letters: finish, offish.

-4 letters: finis, finos, fohns, foins, infos, sniff.

-5 letters: fino, fins, fish, fohn, foin, fons, hins, hisn, hons, info, ions, nisi, nosh, offs, shin, sinh.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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