finish vs put away

put away vs finish

finish is a noun but put away is not a noun.

finish and put away both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
finish	Yes	No	Yes	No
put away	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, put away is a hyponym of finish; that is, put away is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than finish:

finish: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
put away: eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food

Other hyponyms of finish include tuck away, tuck in, consume, demolish, devour, down, go through.

finish (noun)	put away (noun)
the act of finishing
a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
(wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed)
designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)
the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict)
event whose occurrence ends something
the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
the temporal end; the concluding time

finish (verb)	put away (verb)
finally be or do something	turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
come or bring to a finish or an end	eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
cause to finish a relationship with somebody	kill gently, as with an injection
finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table	place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
provide with a finish	stop using
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical	throw or cast away
	lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

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