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endingnoun the last part of a process or actionthe plagiarism scandal was a disgraceful ending to a once-promising academic career capper, close, closing, conclusion, consummation, end, endgame, finale, finis, finish, grand finale, homestretch, mop-up, windup, wrap-up acme, apex, capstone, climax, copestone, coup de grâce(or coup de grace), crescendo, crown, culmination, high-water mark, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tip-top, top, zenithaftermath, anticlimax, coda, epilogue(also epilog), postscriptshank, tag end, tail end baseline, beginning, dawn, day one, nascence, nascency, opening, start foreword, introduction, overture, preamble, preface, prelude, prologue(also prolog) the stopping of a process or activitythe best part about any dental procedure is its ending arrest, arrestment, cease, cessation, check, close, closedown, closure, conclusion, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, end, expiration, finish, halt, lapse, offset, shutdown, shutoff, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease, termination mop-up, phaseoutabeyance, break, interruption, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, standstill, suspension continuance, continuation extension, persistence, prolongation endingverbpresent participle of endto bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping pointlet's end the meeting with a short prayer closing, closing out, completing, concluding, finishing, rounding (off or out), terminating, winding up, wrapping up climaxing, crowningconsummating, perfectinghalting, stopping, suspending putting paid to(chiefly British), ringing down the curtain (on) beginning, commencing, inaugurating, opening, starting to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endunfortunately, an argument ended their date, and they're still not speaking to each other breaking, breaking off, breaking up, canning(slang), ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), discontinuing, dropping, giving over, halting, knocking off, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), quitting, shutting off, stopping completing, concluding, finishingclosing (down)deactivatingblockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemmingcalling, suspendingarresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backpausing, staying, suspendingabolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing having done with, putting the kibosh on carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running onadvancing, proceeding, progressingactuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring to come to an enda book so good that you hate to see it end breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, dying, elapsing, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting to stop livinga great general, who ended on the field of battle checking out, conking (out), croaking(slang), deceasing, demising, departing, dropping, dying, exiting, expiring, falling, flatlining, going, kicking in(slang), kicking off(slang), parting, passing away, passing (on), pegging out(chiefly British), perishing, popping off, stepping out, succumbing predeceasingconsuming, disappearing, drying up, fading, failing biting the dust, buying it(or buying the farm), giving up the ghost, kicking the bucket, snuffing it(British) breathing, living coming to, revivinglingeringbeing, existing, subsistingflourishing, prospering, thriving before the 12th century |