finish off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: polish off (sometimes synonymous)"
- "I was hungry, so I finished off the last of the cakes."
- "I finished off all the outstanding orders before I clocked out."
- "However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move."
- "It was the blow to the head that finished him off, not the bullet wound."
- "In some ways having Jon be the one to kill Dany was actually the least interesting option, but the symbolic weight of the truest believer finishing her off made sense."