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Verb: polish off
  1. Finish a task completely
    - get through, wrap up, finish off, mop up, clear up, finish up
     
  2. Kill intentionally and with premeditation
    - murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, remove
     
  3. Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
    "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
    - eat up, finish

Derived forms: polishing off, polished off, polishes off

Type of: complete, eat, finish, kill