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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
End \End\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Ended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ending}.]
1. 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.
2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
3. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ended
adjective: having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview" [syn: {complete}, {concluded}, {over(p)}, {all over}, {terminated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "ended": SOL, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, at an end, canceled, cleaned up, complete, completed, concluded, dead, decided, defunct, deleted, done, done for, done with, down, expunged, extinct, fini, finished, finished up, kaput, over, perfected, perfective, set at rest, settled, shot, terminated, through, through with, washed up, wiped out, wound up, wrapped up, zapped
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