finish up

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	finish up - finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment" finish off, get through, polish off, wrap up, clear up, mop up complete, finish - come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours" cap off - finish or complete, as with some decisive action; "he capped off the meeting with a radical proposal"
	2.	finish up - finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again" end up, fetch up, wind up, finish, land up act, move - perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"

Translations

? finish up

vi

= finish off VI a, b

(= end up in a place) → landen (inf); he finished up a nervous wreck → er war zum Schluss ein Nervenbündel; he finished up in third place → er landete auf dem dritten Platz (inf); you’ll finish up wishing you’d never started → du wünschst dir bestimmt noch, du hättest gar nicht erst angefangen; I’ll just finish up having to do it all again → zum Schluss muss ich doch alles noch mal machen

vt sep = finish off VT b