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finishes out

finishes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Finishes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of finish out.

Words near finishes out in the dictionary

  1. finishedst
  2. finisher
  3. finishers
  4. finishes
  5. finishes off
  6. finishes out
  7. finishes up
  8. finishes with
  9. finishest
  10. finisheth
  11. finishin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finishes 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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