mop up vs finish

mop up and finish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mop up	Yes	No	Yes	No
finish	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, finish is a hyponym of mop up; that is, finish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mop up:

As verbs, finish is a hypernym of mop up; that is, finish is a word with a broader meaning than mop up:

Other hypernyms of mop up include complete.

mop up (noun)	finish (noun)
a concluding action	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

mop up (verb)	finish (verb)
finish a task completely	finally be or do something
defeat thoroughly	come or bring to a finish or an end
to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop	cause to finish a relationship with somebody
	finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
	provide with a finish
	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical