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finish someone/something off

to destroy or completely defeat someone or something. Lack of water finished off the agricultural communities in the valley. He insisted that the disease was not going to finish him off.

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Soon the sound of Old Pretty's milk fizzing into the pail came through the hedge, and then Angel felt inclined to go round the corner also, to finish off a hard-yielding milcher who had strayed there, he being now as capable of this as the dairyman himself. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context I ought to direct all my efforts to European culture now, and keep Boston to finish off. A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context More results

References in classic literature

Soon the sound of Old Pretty's milk fizzing into the pail came through the hedge, and then Angel felt inclined to go round the corner also, to finish off a hard-yielding milcher who had strayed there, he being now as capable of this as the dairyman himself.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

I ought to direct all my efforts to European culture now, and keep Boston to finish off.

A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context

Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.

Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context

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