finish – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to finish off sb
Participle: finished off sb
Gerund: finishing off sb

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	finish off sb
we	Let's finish off sb
you	finish off sb

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to put to death; to extinguish life.

annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck

To complete something

end

to cease an activity

call it quits, conclude, quit

conclude

cease, close, end, terminate, complete, consume

wax

polish, stain

accomplish

achieve, complete, do, execute, perform

Antonyms

accomplish

fail, relinquish, nullify, defeat

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1350, from O.Fr. finiss-, stem of finir, from L. finire "to limit, set bounds, end," from finis "boundary, limit, border, end," of unknown origin, perhaps related to figere "to fasten, fix" (see fix). The noun is first attested 1790. Finishing school is from 1836.
2. From Middle English finishen, finisshen, finischen, from Old French finiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of finir, from Latin fīnīre, from fīnis (“end, limit, border, boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

Verbs referencing "finish"

Dutch finishen, Tok Pisin pinis, Tok Pisin pinisim.

Sample Sentences