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Ended   /ˈɛndəd/  /ˈɛndɪd/   Listen
verb
End  v. t.  (past & past part. ended; pres. part. 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." "On the seventh day God ended his work."
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."
To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.


End  v. i.  To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.





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"Ended" Quotes from Famous Books



... hall that ran clear through the house was growing quite dark with shadows; the game of chess had ended, and the players left the window, and presently Olive turned slowly and went into the house. Through the sitting-room came a lively chatter, and as she passed the door some one ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving
... such other pretie and curious and artificiall conceits, which at such times many do take the paines to make and hang up in their houses, as tokens of good will to the new married Bride; and after the solemnities ended, to bestow abroad for Bride-gifts or presents." It was this "white substance or pith" from which the Rush candle (No. 11) was and still is made: a candle which in early days was probably the universal ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... having made up her mind that the poor creature must be dead, and his sufferings ended, and having given Tiney many admonitions to keep out of the road when carriages were passing, her thoughts turned ...
— Minnie's Pet Monkey • Madeline Leslie
... my own appeal to him—tell us stories of the world of his youth. He regaled us with no scandals, yet it somehow rarely failed to come out that each contemporary on his younger scene, each hero of each thrilling adventure, had, in spite of brilliant promise and romantic charm, ended badly, as badly as possible. This became our gaping generalisation—it gaped even under the moral that the anecdote was always, and so familiarly, humanly and vividly, designed to convey: everyone in the little old Albany of the Dutch houses and the steep streets ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James
... galleries were approached from within the broch by a staircase which rose from the court and passed round between the two concentric walls above the ground floor, till it reached their highest point, and probably ended immediately above the only entrance, the outside of which was thus peculiarly exposed to missiles from the end of the staircase at the top of the broch. The only aperture in the outer wall was the entrance from the outside, about 5 feet high by 3 feet wide, fitted with a stone door, ...
— Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time - or, The Jarls and The Freskyns • James Gray


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