About to
Completed
Completed adjective - Brought or having come to an end.
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Synonyms for Completed
About to and completed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "About to" instead an adjective "Completed".
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At the end, he spots a woman whose timer is about to run out and saves her from an accident; he walks away, task completed, while she experiences the Stat-O-Vision instead.
Source: Death's Hourglass - As he's about to walk out of the other side of the border control point, a guard yells after him to stop... because all the necessary paperwork has been completed and Steiner's new passport is ready.
Source: Hey, Wait! -
When he completed his time machine, he pacified the crew non-lethally, despite the fact that he was about to change history and thus killing them would have had no real repercussions.
Source: Chaotic Good
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Completed and About to. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/about_to/completed
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Completed or About to. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/about_to/completed.
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