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1. A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
   "the boat had a metallic finishing";
   - coating, finish
    
2. The act of finishing
   "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause";
   - finish

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"

Derived forms: finishings

Type of: act, closing, coat, completion, culmination, decorativeness, eat, end, mop up, move, surface, terminate, windup

Antonym: beginning, start

Encyclopedia: Finishing, Construction