| verb | come or bring to a finish or an end “He finished the dishes” |
| verb | finally be or do something “He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart” |
| verb | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical “the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed” |
| verb | provide with a finish “The carpenter finished the table beautifully” |
| verb | finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table “She polished off the remaining potatoes” |
| verb | cause to finish a relationship with somebody “That finished me with Mary” |
| adjective | (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state “a finished product” |
| adjective | ended or brought to an end “are you finished?” |
| adjective | (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected “a dazzling and finished piece of writing” |
| adjective | having a surface coating or finish applied “the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones” |
| adjective | brought to ruin “after the revolution the aristocracy was finished” |
| completion | noun | a concluding action |
| finisher | noun | (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game |
| finish | noun | event whose occurrence ends something |
| finishing | noun | the act of finishing |
| windup | noun | a concluding action |
| end | noun | the last section of a communication |
| terminative | adjective | coming to an end |
| terminus | noun | a place where something ends or is complete |