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(verb) bring to a conclusion or cause to come to an end; "We terminated our relation with the company"; "It is unclear whether the bombing of Hiroshima ended the war"; "Cease doing what you are doing!" |
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Synonyms: cease, terminate |
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Related Words: alter, change, close out, conclude, halt |
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Antonyms: begin |
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(verb) bring to an end; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime" |
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Synonyms: terminate |
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Related Words: abort, alter, ax, axe, break, break off, break up, change, close, closure, cloture, complete, crush out, culminate, decide, discontinue, dissolve, extinguish, finalize, finish, interrupt, kill, lift, nail down, phase out, press out, raise, resolve, settle, stamp out, stop, stub out |
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Antonyms: begin |
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(noun) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end" |
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Related Words: lineman |
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(noun) the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end" |
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Related Words: contribution, part, share |
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(verb) put an end to; "The terrible news destroyed our hopes that he had survived" |
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Related Words: destroy |
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(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense: "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
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Synonyms: cease, finish, terminate |
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Related Words: adjourn, break, break up, climax, close, come out, culminate, cut out, die hard, disappear, discontinue, end up, fetch up, finish up, go, go away, go out, land up, lapse, pass away, recess, run low, run short, turn out, vanish, wind up |
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Antonyms: begin |
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(verb) be the end of; be the last of concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie" |
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Related Words: be, close |
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(noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold |
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Synonyms: oddment, remainder, remnant, scrap |
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Related Words: piece of cloth |
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(noun) a final part or section: "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end" |
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Related Words: division, part, section |
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Antonyms: beginning, middle |
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(noun) the concluding part of an event or occurrence: "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie" |
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Synonyms: last |
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Related Words: conclusion, ending |
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(noun) a boundary marking the extremities of something: "the end of town" |
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Related Words: bound, boundary, bounds |
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(noun) either extremity of something that has length: "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they had reached the end of the road" |
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Related Words: bitter end, bitthead, end point, endpoint, extremity, magnetic pole, point, pole, railhead, terminus, tip, yardarm |
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(noun) the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object: "one end of the box was marked `This side up'" |
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Related Words: surface |
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(noun) one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; "the phone rang at the other end" or "both ends wrote at the same time" |
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Related Words: place, spot, topographic point |
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(noun) (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass" |
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Related Words: lineman, split end, tight end |
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(noun) a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" |
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Synonyms: death, destruction |
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Related Words: state |
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(noun) the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" |
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Synonyms: ending |
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Related Words: cease, death, demise, dying, expiration, expiry, fag end, last, limit, period, point, point in time, tail, tail end, terminal point, termination, terminus ad quem, year-end |
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Antonyms: beginning, middle |
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(noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means" |
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Synonyms: goal |
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Related Words: aim, bourn, bourne, cognitive content, content, design, destination, end-all, intent, intention, mental object, no-goal, object, objective, purpose, target, terminus |
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(noun) the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." |
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Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, ending |
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Related Words: anticlimax, bathos, coda, epilog, epilogue, finale, peroration, section, subdivision |
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