absol.; esp. with reference to speech: To finish, conclude.

To bring to completion; to make or perform completely; to complete. Also with off, †up. †to finish to (do): to succeed completely in (doing).

absol. To make an end of an action, e.g. speech or writing; to end, finish, close (with or by).

intransitive. To reach a destination; to complete an activity; to endure an experience.

With past participle as complement. intransitive. With past participle of an intransitive verb: to accomplish or complete an action. Now nonstandard.

(absol. from 5). To conclude or settle a business; to get through, have done (with). Obsolete.

Of a person: †To end one's course of action (obsolete); to bring one's remarks to a close. Now rare. (Cf. 13.)

To coil (thread, etc.) into a compact mass (cf. 15): chiefly in †to wind up a bottomor one's bottoms (bottom, n. 24), usually figurative to sum…

intransitive. To conclude, wind up.

absol. or intransitive. To finish up or off, wind up, conclude (with something). colloquial.

To complete by putting the top on, or forming the top of (a stack, etc.): often to top up; hence (colloquial) to put the finishing touch to (a…

In predicative use, expressing a state of completion. Cf. sense B. 5a(b). colloquial. With verbal noun or gerund as complement: having stopped…

transitive. To arrange the affairs of and dissolve (an enterprise); to bring (an operation or activity) to a conclusion; to wind up.