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

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 [informal], 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, change, coat, eat, end, move, surface, terminate

Antonym: unfinished

Encyclopedia: Finished