finish out

verb

To finish up, to complete, something previously started, particularly a time frame.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person finishes out · participle present finishing out · participle past finished out · past finished out

  1. transitiveTo 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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    Don accepted the new job, and they decided to let Billy finish out the school year before he and Jan moved to their new home. Even though it was a hundred-mile drive one way, Jan and Billy were there for Don's first sermon in the new[…]

    2019 September 30, David Ford, How You Finish Is What Counts, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

    They finished out the season in the NBL as the first all-black team in organized professional basketball, with Gates as player-coach.

    2021, Syl Sobel, Jay Rosenstein, Boxed out of the NBA, page 25

Synonyms & antonyms

verbfill out

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round out

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

finish out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/finish%20out

MLA

“finish out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/finish%20out. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “finish out,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/finish%20out.

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