finish
/ˈfɪnɪʃ/ verb A1- To complete (something). · Be sure to finish your homework before you go to bed!
- To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar). · The furniture was finished in teak veneer.
- To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal. · Due to BSE, cows in the United Kingdom must be finished and slaughtered before 30 months of age.
- To come to an end. · We had to leave before the concert had finished.
- To put an end to; to destroy. · These rumours could finish your career.
- To reach orgasm.
- To stop an opponent and end a bout prematurely before the scheduled time limit expires, securing an immediate victory via knockout, technical knockout, or submission.
Plural finish · He/she/it finishes · Past finished · Past participle finished · -ing form finishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- finish
- He/she/it
- finishes
- Past
- finished
- Past participle
- finished
- -ing form
- finishing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying “We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;” and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.
“Please come back and finish your story!” Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus, “Yes, please do!” but the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker.
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