ending

ending
Synonyms and related words:
Z, annihilation, apodosis, arrest, bane, bell, biological death, capping, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, check, checkmate, clinical death, close, closing, coda, completing, completion, concluding, conclusion, consummation, consummative, consummatory, crack of doom, crossing the bar, crowning, culminating, culmination, culminative, curtain, curtains, cutoff, dead stop, deadlock, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, demise, denouement, departure, desistance, destination, destiny, dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, endgame, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final whistle, final words, finale, finality, finger of death, finis, finish, finishing, full development, full stop, goal, going, going off, grave, grinding halt, gun, halt, hand of death, izzard, jaws of death, knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, lockout, loss of life, making an end, maturation, maturity, omega, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, perfecting, perfection, perfective, period, perishing, peroration, quietus, release, resolution, rest, resting place, reward, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sit-down strike, sleep, somatic death, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping place, strike, summons of death, swan song, term, terminal, terminating, termination, terminus, topping off, walkout, windup, work stoppage

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Ending — End ing, n. 1. Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d {Case}, 5. [1913 Webster] {Ending day}, day of death.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Ending —   [englisch, endɪȖ; wörtlich »beenden, abschließen«], meist zweitaktige Schlusswendung in einem Arrangement bzw. einer Improvisation; kann als Höhepunkt gesteigert werden, aber auch verklingen (ausblenden). Als Endings werden auch Akkordfolgen… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • ending — [en′diŋ] n. [OE endung: see END2] 1. an end; specif., a) the last part; finish; conclusion b) death 2. Gram. the letter(s) or syllable(s) added to the end of a word or base to make a derived or inflected form [“ ed” …   English World dictionary

  • ending — index cessation (termination), close (conclusion), conclusion (outcome), defeasance, denouement …   Law dictionary

  • ending — O.E. endunge, prp. of END (Cf. end) …   Etymology dictionary

  • ending — n *end, termination, terminus Ana, Ant & Contrasted words: see those at END n 2 …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • ending — [n] conclusion catastrophe, cessation, close, closing, closure, completion, consummation, coup de grace, culmination, denouement, desistance, dissolution, epilogue, expiration, finale, finish, lapse, omega, outcome, period, resolution, stop,… …   New thesaurus

  • ending — ► NOUN ▪ an end or final part …   English terms dictionary

  • ending — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ happy ▪ sad, tragic, unhappy ▪ bad, good ▪ dramatic ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • ending — end|ing [ˈendıŋ] n 1.) the way that a story, film, activity etc finishes happy/perfect/surprise etc ending ▪ a story with a happy ending ending to ▪ Cookies and coffee are the perfect ending to a meal. 2.) [U] when a process stops or is finished …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • ending */*/ — UK [ˈendɪŋ] / US noun [countable] Word forms ending : singular ending plural endings 1) the way in which something such as a story, film, or play ends Children usually prefer books with a happy ending. 2) a time when something stops permanently… …   English dictionary

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