FINISH OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finish off mean? 

• FINISH OFF (verb)
  The verb FINISH OFF has 1 sense:

1. finish a task completely

  Familiarity information: FINISH OFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINISH OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finish a task completely

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clear up; finish off; finish up; get through; mop up; polish off; wrap up

Context example:

I finally got through this homework assignment

Hypernyms (to "finish off" is one way to...):

complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "finish off"):

cap off (finish or complete, as with some decisive action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: “Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The full moon of November 12 will work to deliver the answers you need, so plan to finish off talks at month’s end when the planets will have corrected their orbits.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And all the while the silent and wolfish circle waited to finish off whichever dog went down.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Hoping to impress the lesson more deeply, Mrs. March, who had a good deal of humor, resolved to finish off the trial in an appropriate manner, so she gave Hannah a holiday and let the girls enjoy the full effect of the play system.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)