The Collaborative International Dictionary
End \End\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ending.]
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To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech. ``I shall end this strife.''
--Shak.On the seventh day God ended his work.
--Gen. ii. 2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
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To destroy; to put to death. ``This sword hath ended him.''
--Shak.To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.
Usage examples of "to end up".
He had walked, stumbled, and crawled across the hostile surface of an alien world in hopes of effecting a gallant rescue, only to end up in need of rescue by the one he sought.
I was thinking that when we get back, I'm bound to end up somewhere in government.
Such strategies might yet succeed here, too, but they were apt to end up unpleasant for the poor males who had to put them into motion right at the moment.
Anyway, I was shy but I was smart, and with that combination it was a natural for me to end up in computers.
With all the interruptions I'd be lucky not to end up mixing vinegar into the whipped cream.
He was going to end up with some unpleasant disease (if he hadn't already) or slapped with a paternity suit, and there was nothing I could do about it except watch it happen.
If we go down without him, you know damn well that we're going to end up in someone's cooking pot.
As the Teacher had explained, both things and people judged unendurable by normal society were sometimes banished from the normal world, to end up here.
If the girls phone from school you can tell them that their father isn't going to end up in the clink.