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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Finish \Fin"ish\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Finished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Finishing}.] [F. finir (with a stem finiss- in several forms, whence E. -ish: see -ish.),fr. L. finire to limit, finish, end, fr. finis boundary, limit, end; perh. for fidnis, and akin findere to cleave, E. fissure.]
1. To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
And heroically hath finished A life heroic. --Milton.
2. To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
Syn: To end; terminate; close; conclude; complete; accomplish; perfect.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Finished \Fin"ished\, adjective Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.
{Finished work} (Mach.), work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
finished
adjective
1: (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state; "a finished product" [ant: {unfinished}]
2: ended or brought to an end; "are you finished?"; "gave me the finished manuscript"; "the manuscript is finished"; "almost finished with his studies" [ant: {unfinished}]
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"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically" [syn: {ruined}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
243 Moby Thesaurus words for "finished": Attic, Ciceronian, SOL, ablated, accomplished, ago, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, antiquated, antique, archetypical, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at an end, at concert pitch, at rest, ausgespielt, balanced, bankrupt, bereft of life, blasted, blighted, blown over, breathless, broken, buffed, burnished, burnt up, by, bygone, bypast, called home, canceled, career, carrion, chaste, classic, cleaned up, clear, coached, coequal, complete, completed, concluded, consumed, consummate, conversant, coordinate, croaked, cultivated, cultured, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, decided, defunct, deleted, demised, departed, departed this life, depleted, desolated, destitute of life, destroyed, devastated, developed, direct, dissipated, done, done for, done in, done with, down, down-and-out, drained, easy, eaten up, effete, elapsed, elegant, ended, equal, equilateral, eroded, eurythmic, even, exanimate, exemplary, exhausted, expert, expired, expunged, extinct, fallen, fini, finished up, food for worms, forgotten, fully developed, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gone, gone glimmering, gone to glory, gone to pot, gone west, gone-by, graceful, gracile, harmonious, has-been, impoverished, in ruins, inanimate, initiate, initiated, irrecoverable, irremediable, kaput, lacquered, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, limpid, lucid, martyred, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, natural, neat, no more, obsolete, over, overthrown, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, pellucid, perfected, perfective, perspicuous, plain, polished, practiced, prepared, primed, professional, proficient, proportioned, pure, pushing up daisies, quintessential, ravaged, refined, regular, released, reposing, resting easy, restrained, ripe, ripened, round, rubbed, ruined, ruinous, run out, sainted, satiny, set at rest, settled, shellacked, shiny, shot, silken, silky, simple, skilled, sleek, sleeping, slick, smitten with death, smooth, spent, spoiled, still, stillborn, straightforward, suave, symmetric, taken away, taken off, tasteful, technical, terminated, terse, through, through with, trained, trim, unaffected, undone, uniform, unlabored, urbane, used up, vanished, varnished, velvety, versatile, virtuosic, washed up, washed-up, wasted, well-balanced, well-set, well-set-up, wiped out, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, worn away, worn-out, wound up, wrapped up, wrecked, zapped
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