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Finished   /fˈɪnɪʃt/   Listen
Finished

adjective
1.
(of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state.
2.
Ended or brought to an end.  "Gave me the finished manuscript"
3.
(of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected.  "A finished violinist"
4.
Having a surface coating or finish applied.
5.
Brought to ruin.  Synonym: ruined.  "The unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"



Finish

verb
(past & past part. finished; pres. part. finishing)
1.
Come or bring to a finish or an end.  Synonym: complete.  "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree" , "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"
2.
Finally be or do something.  Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up.  "He wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
3.
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.  Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate.  "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" , "My property ends by the bushes" , "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
4.
Provide with a finish.  "This shirt is not finished properly"
5.
Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.  Synonyms: eat up, polish off.
6.
Cause to finish a relationship with somebody.



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"Finished" Quotes from Famous Books



... Quoted in Malon's Expose des Ecoles Socialistes francaises, 15. Baboeuf carried Rousseau's sentiments further towards their natural conclusion by such propositions as these: "The goal of the revolution is to destroy inequality, and to re-establish the happiness of all." "The revolution is not finished, because the rich absorb all the property, and hold exclusive power; while the poor toil like born slaves, languish in wretchedness, and are nothing in the state." Expose des ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... acquaintance in town had done little for him hitherto, yet when they saw that they should not be long troubled with him, they sent him good books, and provided everything that was necessary for him; so that with much resignation he finished his days, with the other malefactors, at Tyburn, in the fifty-second year of his age, on the 9th day of ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward

... finished, Hal was on his feet. Her heart smote her as she saw the gray worry pass from his face and his shoulders square as from the relief of a burden lifted, "Has it lain so heavy on your ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... been arranged that he and Mr. Rhea, should translate the Scriptures into Tartar-Turkish for the benefit of the Mussulman population of Azerbijan and the regions beyond; but Dr. Wright's work was finished. His disease was typhoid fever, and during much of his sickness he ...
— History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. • Rufus Anderson

... a retractor, two scalpels and a hypodermic case out of the kit and laid them in a neat row on the bunk. He then picked up each one and returned it to the kit. When he had quite finished Anderson said, ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn


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