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1. (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"
    
2. Having a surface coating or finish applied
   "the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones"
    
3. Brought to ruin
   "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished";
   - ruined, downfallen
    
4. (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state
   "a finished product"
    
5. Ended or brought to an end
   "are you finished?"; "gave me the finished manuscript"

1. Come or bring to an end
   "He finished the dishes"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours";
   - complete
    
2. Finally be or do something
   "He finished up marrying his high school sweetheart";
   - finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up
    
3. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
   "My property finishes by the bushes";
   - end, stop, terminate, cease
    
4. Provide with a finish
   "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly"
    
5. Complete eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
   "She finished the remaining potatoes";
   - eat up, polish off [informal]
    
6. Cause to finish a relationship with somebody
   "That finished me with Mary"

See also: all over, complete, concluded, destroyed, done, done with, dressed, ended, fattened, fattening, fin de siècle, fin-de-siecle, fin-de-siècle, out of the way, out-of-the-way, over, painted, polished, processed, smooth, terminated, through, through with, up

Type of: act, coat, eat, end, move, surface, terminate

Antonym: start, unfinished

Encyclopedia: Finished