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finished

[ fin-isht ]

adjective

  1. ended or completed.
  2. completed or perfected in all details, as a product:

    to pack and ship finished items.

  3. polished to the highest degree of excellence:

    a dazzling and finished piece of writing.

  4. highly skilled or accomplished:

    a finished violinist.

  5. condemned, doomed, or in the process of extinction:

    The aristocracy was finished after the revolution.

  6. (of livestock) fattened and ready for market.


finished

/ ˈɪɪʃ /

adjective

  1. perfected
  2. predicative at the end of a task, activity, etc

    they were finished by four

  3. predicative without further hope of success or continuation

    she was finished as a prima ballerina

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • 󲹱-ھi adjective
  • ɱ-ھi adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of finished1

First recorded in 1575–85; finish + -ed 2
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"If we don't have the ball, we die," Rice told his Arsenal team-mates as they finished their warm-up before the Champions League semi-final first leg at Emirates Stadium.

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Baeza, who finished second in the Santa Anita Derby, is on the outside looking in, needing one horse to scratch before Friday morning to make the starting field.

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Villa Park 5, Ocean View 2: Aidan Young hit two home runs and finished with four hits.

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She started looking for work when she finished her masters in January 2024, and estimates she has applied for around 2,000 roles.

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“With all due respect, we finished last last year, so everything that we did last year was thrown out the window,” Plum said Sunday in Torrance, where the Sparks opened training camp.

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