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finished out

finished out is the simple past and past participle of finish out.

Meaning of finish out

Verb

finish out (third-person singular simple present finishes out, present participle finishing out, simple past and past participle finished out)

  1. (transitive) To finish up, to complete, something previously started, particularly a time frame.
    • A former Spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force who had been shot down over Germany and finished out the war in a POW camp.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 82

Questions about finished out

What is finished out the simple past and past participle of?
Finished out is the simple past and past participle of finish out.

Words near finished out in the dictionary

  1. finished article
  2. finished articles
  3. finished good
  4. finished goods
  5. finished off
  6. finished out
  7. finished product
  8. finished products
  9. finished up
  10. finished with
  11. finishedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finished out (page history and authors); finish out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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