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CIDE DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
finish off | finish out | finish up | finished | finisher | finishing | finishing coat | finishing line | finishing school | finishing touch | finite

finishing

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CIDE DICTIONARY

finishingn. 
     The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.  [1913 Webster]
finishinga. 
     Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.  [1913 Webster]
Finishing coat. (a) (Plastering) the final coat of plastering applied to walls and ceilings, usually white and rubbed smooth. (b) (Painting) The final coat of paint, usually differently mixed applied from the others. -- Finishing press, a machine for pressing fabrics. -- Finishing rolls (Iron Working), the rolls of a train which receive the bar from roughing rolls, and reduce it to its finished shape. Raymond.

THESAURUS

finishing

ablation, absorption, assimilation, attrition, burning up, capping, close, closing, completing, completion, completive, completory, concluding, conclusion, conclusive, consummative, consummatory, consumption, crowning, culminating, culmination, culminative, depletion, digestion, drain, eating up, end, ending, erosion, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, final, finalizing, finish, fulfilling, full development, impoverishment, ingestion, last, maturation, maturity, perfecting, perfection, perfective, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, spending, squandering, terminal, terminating, termination, terminative, terminus, topping off, ultimate, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing down, windup

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