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| VERB: | 1. To bring or come to a natural or proper end: close, conclude, consummate, end, finish, terminate, wind up, wrap up. See START. 2. To supply what is lacking: complement, fill in or (out), round (off or out), supplement. See AGREE, PART. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having reached completion: done, through. See PART. 2. Lacking nothing essential or normal: entire, full, intact, integral, perfect, whole. See PART. 3. Not shortened by omissions: unabbreviated, unabridged, uncensored, uncut, unexpurgated. See PART. 4. Not more or less: entire, full, good, perfect, round, whole. See PART, PRECISE. 5. Covering all aspects with painstaking accuracy: all-out, exhaustive, full-dress, intensive, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoroughpaced. See BIG, CAREFUL. 6. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter2. Informal : flat-out, positive. Chiefly British : blooming. See BIG, LIMITED. 7. Including every constituent or individual: all, entire, gross, total, whole. See PART.
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