1. ending, termination -- (the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending").
2. termination, ending, conclusion -- (the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement").
3. end, ending -- (the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period").
4. ending, conclusion, finish -- (event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show").
5. conclusion, end, close, closing, ending -- (the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say...").
1. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo").
2. end, terminate -- (bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI").
3. end, terminate -- (be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie").
4. end -- (put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived").
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