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Meanings of polish off in English

Portuguese
matar
Catalan
eliminar
Spanish
quitar de enmedio

To unlawfully and intentionally kill another human being.

      matar
      Portuguese
      atingir
      Catalan
      acabar
      Spanish
      rematar

      Finish a task completely.

          atingir
          Portuguese
          devorar

          Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.

                devorar
                Usage of polish off in English
                1
                I'll take care of this fellow Thornton while you polish off Flemming.
                Frank Merriwell's Races
                2
                Or just polish off the end of your off-dry aperitif wine.
                The Irish Times
                3
                Whereas Timothy and I could polish off Eli in two minutes or less.
                The Book of Skulls
                4
                Not too stuffed to polish off a classic crème brûlée though.
                News.com.au
                5
                Scrubbing spittoons is enough to take the polish off any guy.
                The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
                6
                At this Farrington told the boys to polish off that and have another.
                Dubliners
                7
                And I'm young enough to polish off every unlicked cub in these parts.
                Bull Hunter
                8
                He says it takes the polish off from a chap's ambition.
                The Rose in the Ring
                9
                That's all a critic is for-topolish off the tales he can't write.
                Told in a French Garden / August, 1914
                10
                If you're sharing food, never polish off a resource without offering it up first.
                Climbing Magazine
                11
                Cate peeled the polish off her pinkie nail and flicked it on the floor.
                Sloane Sisters
                12
                It doesn't take long to polish off the permits proper (or improper).
                The New North
                13
                It takes time even to polish off such a specimen.
                The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, the Hermit of Fern Island
                14
                It'll take more 'an a sunstroke to polish off Alviry.
                Up the Hill and Over
                15
                But I'll polish him off some day-andpolish off Tom, too, added Sobber, uglily.
                The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall
                16
                I shall polish off some work now, and no mistake!
                The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4
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                Translations for polish off
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