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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment" [syn: get through, wrap up, finish off, mop up, polish off, clear up, finish up]
2: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove]
3: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" [syn: eat up, finish, polish off]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1829 to finish off or dispose of rapidly or completely

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you polish off food or drink, you eat or drink all of it, or finish it. (INFORMAL) No matter what he is offered to eat he polishes it off in an instant... He polished off his scotch and slammed the glass down. PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)

Moby Thesaurus

KO, accomplish, achieve, attain, blast, blot out, bump off, call off, cancel, compass, complete, consummate, croak, deal with, delete, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, do the job, do the trick, drop the curtain, effect, effectuate, enact, end off, erase, execute, expunge, extinguish, fetch, finalize, finish, fix, fold up, fulfill, get, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the business, give the quietus, gun down, hit, ice, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock off, knock out, lay out, make, manage, off, perfect, perform, produce, punish, put, put away, put paid to, realize, rub out, scrag, settle, shoot down, succeed, take care of, turn the trick, waste, wipe out, work, work out, zap