finish
come or bring to a finish or an end
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,344 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,392 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- come or bring to a finish or an end also: complete He finished the dishesShe completed the requirements for her Master's Degree
- finally be or do something also: finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up He ended up marrying his high school sweethearthe wound up being unemployed and living at home again
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical also: end, stop, terminate, cease the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bedYour rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
- provide with a finish The carpenter finished the table beautifullythis shirt is not finished properly
- finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table also: eat up, polish off She polished off the remaining potatoes
- cause to finish a relationship with somebody That finished me with Mary
noun
- a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) also: coating, finishing the boat had a metallic finishhe applied a coat of a clear finish
- the temporal end; the concluding time also: stopping point, finale, finis, last, conclusion, close the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bellthe market was up at the finish
finish in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Now finish your dinner and do the dishes.
Polly of Pebbly Pit · Lillian Elizabeth Roy · Chapter 1
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He pulled hard at the strands in a hurried endeavour to finish his knot.
The nigger of the "Narcissus" · Joseph Conrad · Chapter 1
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While it lacks the finish and poise of the two Inaugurals it is far more imaginative than the Debates.
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters · Abraham Lincoln · Chapter 1
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She would soon get well, they said; and she could then go to finish her convalescence in some southern city.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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And it took a good many hours from his work and chores for the Toyman to finish IT, whatever IT was.
Half-Past Seven Stories · Robert Gordon Anderson · Chapter 1