1. (

• complete ,
• finish ,

) 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" ;

2. (

• finish_up ,
• land_up ,
• fetch_up ,
• end_up ,
• wind_up ,
• finish ,

) finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again" ;

3. (

• end ,
• stop ,
• finish ,
• terminate ,
• cease ,

) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" ;

4. (

• finish

) provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly" ;

5. (

• eat_up ,
• finish ,
• polish_off

) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" ;

6. (

• finish ,

) cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary" ;

1. (

• finished ,

) (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state; "a finished product" ;

2. (

• finished ,

) ended or brought to an end; "are you finished?"; "gave me the finished manuscript" ;

3. (

• finished

) (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected; "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"; "a finished violinist" ;

4. (

• finished

) having a surface coating or finish applied; "the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones" ;

5. (

• finished ,
• ruined ,

) brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically" ;