Verb: polish off
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Finish a task completely
"I finally polished off this homework assignment";
- get through, wrap up [informal], finish off, mop up, finish up
- Complete eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
"She polished off the remaining potatoes";
- eat up, finish
- Kill intentionally and with premeditation
"The assassin polished off the injured politician";
- murder, slay [literary], dispatch, bump off [informal], off [N. Amer, informal], croak [informal], despatch [Brit]
Derived forms: polished off, polishing off, polishes off
See also: clip [informal], do in [informal], knock off [informal], liquidate, neutralise [Brit], neutralize, take out [informal], waste [informal], whack [informal]