Finish Up

Definition: Finish Up

Finish Up

Verb

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

2. Be in a certain state as a result of some action or event; "He wound up being unemployed and living at home again".

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

Synonyms: Finish Up

You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

And finish up that radiation research in the basement (AlfTales; writing credit: Bradley Kesden; Mitchell Kriegman)

Albert, we're less than twenty-four hours from being vaporized and you want to finish up paper work (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Can you two testosterone-seething, he-man, comic book fans finish up with this display of tough guy back-and-forth (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

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

Called back to finish up. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Expression using "finish up": finish up a blind alley. Additional references.

Chinese 

包�'�' (buy the whole lot, finish up or off). (various references)

Czech

skonèit ve vìzení. (various references)

German

landen (alight, come down, connect, debark, descend, disembark, end up, fetch up, get somewhere, land, land up, put down, to alight, to debark, to disembark, to land, touch down). (various references)

Greek 

καθαρίζω (absterge, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, clear out, clear up, defecate, flux, furbish, net, peel, purge, purify, rarefy, scavenge, scour, wash away). (various references)

Indonesian

membantai (slaughter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

為出来す (to be guilty of, to do, to finish up, to perpetrate), 為出かす (to be guilty of, to do, to finish up, to perpetrate), 仕出来す (to be guilty of, to do, to finish up, to perpetrate), 仕出かす (to be guilty of, to do, to finish up, to perpetrate), 仕上�'る (to complete, to finish up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しでかす (to be guilty of, to do, to finish up, to perpetrate), しあ�'る (to complete, to finish up). (various references)

Pig Latin

inishfay upay.(various references)

Swedish

vara färdig (finish off), upphöra (cease, come to an end, desist, end, expire, finish off, give up, go, lapse, pass, pass over, stop), tillintetgöra (annihilate, crush, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, finish off), ta död på (finish off, kill, scotch), sluta (be through with, cease, close, come to an end, conclude, discontinue, drop it, drop out, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, 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 off, put the lid on, use up, wear out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pinfish.

-2 letters: finish, punish, unship.

-3 letters: finis, unhip.

-4 letters: fins, fish, funs, hins, hips, hisn, huns, nips, nisi, pfui, phis, pins, pish, puns, push, shin, ship, shun, sinh, snip, spin, spun.

-5 letters: fin, fun, hin, hip, his, hun, hup, ifs, ins, nip, nus, phi, pin, pis, piu, psi, pun, pus, sin, sip, sun, sup, uns.

+2 letters: upshifting.