polished off

past tense of polish off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for polished off
Verb
  • In 2006, Hilleary sought the GOP Senate nomination in Tennessee but finished third.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Animal Crossing decompilation community had just finished reverse-engineering the game's source code, providing readable C instead of PowerPC assembly.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And Lina Street Food at 2208 Central Drive in Bedford scored low due to rodent droppings and chewed through bags of flour.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • A couple in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, faced an unexpected international travel nightmare when their dog chewed through the wife's passport just 12 hours before their flight to Jamaica.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Polished off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polished%20off. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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