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concludeverb to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping pointa brief reminder of tonight's game concluded the announcements close, close out, complete, end, finish, round (off or out), terminate, wind up, wrap up climax, crownconsummate, perfecthalt, stop, suspend put paid to(chiefly British), ring down the curtain (on) begin, commence, inaugurate, open, start to come to an endthe concert concluded late in the evening break off, break up, cease, close, dead-end, determine, die, discontinue, elapse, end, expire, finish, go, halt, lapse, leave off, let up, pass, quit, stop, terminate, wind up, wink (out) desist (from), lay off (of), refrain (from)give over(British), knock off, pack (up or in)break down, conk (out), cut out, stallpause, stay, suspendabate, peter (out), wind down bite the dust continue, hang on, persist draw out, extend, prolong, protract to bring about through discussion and compromiseconcluded an economic agreement among the world's leading industrial nations arrange, bargain, concert, negotiate settle (on or upon)chaffer, deal, dicker, haggle, horse-trade, palteragreecontract, covenantargue, debate, discuss, hammer out, hash (over), reason, talk, talk over, work outrenegotiate to come to a judgment about after discussion or considerationhe concluded that the reprimand could wait until later choose, decide, determine, figure, name, opt, resolve, settle (on or upon) decree, rulecull, elect, handpick, pick, prefer, select, single (out)adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, find, judge, referee, rule (on), umpirechew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, meditate, mull (over), ponder, question, ruminate, study, think (about or over), weigh abstain, decline, refuse, reject, turn downdelay, halt, hesitate, stall, temporizeshilly-shally, vacillate, waffle, waver to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and informationconcluded that only the murderer could possibly have known that information decide, deduce, derive, extrapolate, gather, infer, judge, make out, reason, understand assume, supposeconjecture, guess, speculate, surmiseconstrue, interpret, readcontemplate, philosophize, rationalize, thinkascertain, dope (out), find out draw a conclusion close, end, conclude, finish, complete, terminate mean to bring or come to a stopping point or limit.close usually implies that something has been in some way open as well as unfinished.close a debate end conveys a strong sense of finality.ended his life conclude may imply a formal closing (as of a meeting).the service concluded with a blessing finish may stress completion of a final step in a process.after it is painted, the house will be finished complete implies the removal of all deficiencies or a successful finishing of what has been undertaken.the resolving of this last issue completes the agreement terminate implies the setting of a limit in time or space.your employment terminates after three months in the 14th century |