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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  polish off
       v 1: finish a task completely; "I finally got through this
            homework assignment" [syn: get through, wrap up, finish
            off, mop up, clear up, finish up]
       2: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
          ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit,
           dispatch, bump 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]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  polish off
     vb.
     1 (lb en idiomatic) To finish completely, especially a food (polish
  the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
     2 To remove by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  polish off
     vb.
     1 (lb en idiomatic) To finish completely, especially a food (polish
  the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
     2 To remove by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  polish off
     vb.
     1 (lb en idiomatic) To finish completely, especially a food (polish
  the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
     2 To remove by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  polish off
     vb.
     1 (lb en idiomatic) To finish completely, especially a food (polish
  the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
     2 To remove by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  polish off
     Englanti vb.
     (yhteys arkikieltä k=en) hotkaista

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  polish off /pˈɒlɪʃ ˈɒf/ 
  излапвам
  To finish completely, especially a food

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  polish off /pˈɒlɪʃ ˈɒf/ 
  zbaštit

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "polish off":
     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
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     草草做完;击败,杀死,干掉

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