Complete Definition of "polished off"

English
Verb
polished off (Past tense)

#Removed by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive).
#:White rice is rice that has had the brownish hull polished off leaving just the white inner part of the grain.
#Finished, done. (As i the final step, polishing is done. Especially said of eating.)
#:We polished off the last of the work and went home early.
#:He polished off the last of the spaghetti in record time, he must have been very hungry.

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