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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

... history, every movement to better mankind and lift it above the drudgery of mere toil, every beautiful thought is to be found in them and the better the book the more will be found in it of these very things. When we have finished the day's work we can pull down a volume from the shelf and in a moment be lost in an entirely different world. The man who neglects to read surely misses the one best means ...

— Laugh and Live • Douglas Fairbanks

... finished I sat silently gazing seawards, but spoke not. My brothers told me afterwards that I looked as if turned to stone. And, indeed, indeed, my heart felt so. When father first told me we should go back no more to Coila I felt almost happy that the bad news was no worse; ...

— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables

... and lovely melody beyond all save the singer's ken. As she sang the colour mounted slowly to her cheeks, flooding her face with a divine flush; perhaps her very heart's blood rushed to adore the tones which fell from her lips. The man watching held his breath. She finished her song on a clear high note, and as she gave it forth, she flung back her head in an impulsive gesture, glorying in an ecstasy of sound, a magnificence ...

— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay

... monumental stone" was finished, the disconsolate widow dried her eyes, and married a gallant colonel of dragoons, without considering that she was spoiling the beauty of her ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... the long journey immediately. But he who had made so many pilgrimages to Court as a suitor could revel in a position that made it possible for him to hang back, and to be pressed and invited; and so when his business at Palos was finished he sent a messenger with his letters and reports to Barcelona, and himself, with his crew and his Indians and all his trophies, departed for Seville, where he ...

— Christopher Columbus, Complete • Filson Young

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