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Answer for the clue "Bring to an end ", 8 letters:
deciding

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Word definitions for deciding in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle" [syn: crucial , deciding(a) , determinant , determinative , determining(a) ] n. the cognitive process of reaching ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of decide English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decide \De*cide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decided ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deciding .] [L. dec[=i]dere; de- + caedere to cut, cut off; prob. akin to E. shed, v.: cf. F. d['e]cider. Cf. Decision .] To cut off; to separate. [Obs.] Our seat denies us traffic here; ...

Usage examples of deciding.

And because disruptions would count against Acorus in deciding which world would succeed Ifryn in power and glory?

Indeed, for a man so constituted as Adams, such talk could well have been the deciding factor.

In all, Adams cast thirty-one deciding votes, always in support of the administration and more than by any vice president in history.

Chippingham had invited everyone who had been at the task force meeting, including Sloane, but the anchorman declined, deciding to go home to Larchmont with his FBI escort, Otis Havelock.

When Jessica had first arrived at DBS, she had not even met the star anchorwoman for the news division before deciding to hate her.

Returned to their apartment, Andi took a shower and put fifteen minutes into deciding what to wear.

She frowned at her watch, evidently deciding that the quickest way to be rid of Andi was to begrudge her a few minutes.

In the mornings, Lissar began the meal that would be their supper, putting bread dough together to rise, cutting up the solid bits that would go into the stew, melting snow for water, deciding if she could spare the bucket to make soup in or whether she needed to use the less reliable method of burying a lidded bowl in the ashes and hoping the contents would cook.

Then, deciding that he wanted Atlee, pressed a button to summon the secretary.

The operations of the two armies at Petersburg do not possess, for the general reader, that dramatic interest which is found in battles such as those of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, deciding for the time the fates of great campaigns.

Deciding that Beaverwood was completely fenced off from the outer world, the sheriff turned away, gesturing for the others to follow.

Just ahead of me four English girls were adding up their holiday expenses, and deciding whether the budget would let them have lunch in a restaurant or if it was to be Bockwurst sausage from a kiosk on the Ku-damm and eat it in the park.

The Conibo was poised on the edge, as if deciding whether to descend into the surrounding sea of marble.

The slidewalk came to a halt at a four-level intersection, and we stepped into the downflow and floated back down to street level, then stepped onto the expresswalk, stood behind the transparent windbreak, and secured our feet, then waited while the inevitable indecisive passenger delayed us for almost a full minute while deciding which windbreak to stand behind.

When these prejudices are overcome, when we make the step of deciding that we do actually care about our dreams and what they are saying, there is usually a marked increase in dream recall.