finishing

Meanings

Plural: finishings

Noun

• a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
• the act of finishing
  • "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"
• The act of completing something.
• Shooting ability.
• The final work upon or ornamentation of a thing; finish.

Verb

• come or bring to a finish or an end
• finally be or do something
• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
• provide with a finish
• finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
• cause to finish a relationship with somebody
• present participle and gerund of finish

Synonyms

cease, coating, complete, eat up, end, end up, fetch up, finish, finish up, land up, polish off, stop, terminate, wind up

Antonyms

begin, start