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"She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"verbbring to an end or halt
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"This sad scene ended the movie"verbbe the end of; be the last or concluding part of
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"the ends justify the means"nounthe state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
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nounthe last section of a communication
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"the end of the year" "the ending of warranty period"nounthe point in time at which something ends
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"My property ends by the bushes" "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"verbhave an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphoricalOpposite:
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"the end was exciting"nounthe final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
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"he came to a bad end" "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"nouna final state
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"the end of the pier" "she knotted the end of the thread" "they rode to the end of the line"nouneither extremity of something that has length
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"the end of town"nouna boundary marking the extremities of something
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"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"nouna final part or section
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"no one wanted to play end"noun(American football) a position on the line of scrimmagetype of:
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"the end managed to hold onto the pass"noun(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmagetype of:
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"the phone rang at the other end" "both ends wrote at the same time"nounone of two places from which people are communicating to each othertype of:
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"The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"verbput an end to
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"he held up his end"nounthe part you are expected to playtype of:
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"one end of the box was marked `This side up'"nounthe surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional objecttype of:
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be go stop last place kill change death part close point break finish state dying share decide raise spot complete destroy lift purpose settle period target goal disappear passing section tip design surface tail closing ending object aim bound limit destruction interrupt division pole intention content destination conclusion objective cease resolve vanish axe terminal intent heel abort alter contribution bourne climax conclude ax closure boundary terminate finale recess bounds demise destruct dissolve extinguish termination lapse remainder modify expiration finalize adjourn terminus remnant subdivision endgame expiry homestretch coda epilogue culminate finalise discontinue finis extremity lineman railhead yardarm adjudicate bourn anticlimax endpoint oddment piece of material piece of cloth fag end stub out stamp out press out phase out nail down crush out cloture close out break up break off mental object cognitive content end-all no-goal bathos epilog peroration point in time terminus ad quem year-end terminal point tail end stopping point last gasp fin de siecle go out turn out pass away come out run low run out run short cut out go away end game magnetic pole nerve end nerve ending bitthead end point telomere bitter end tight end split end topographic point