| Finishing 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Finish. 2. (n.) The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing. 3. (a.) Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use. Thesaurus Entries 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 |