end – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to end up doing sth
Participle: ended up doing sth
Gerund: ending up doing sth

Cognates

See the 6 cognates of end

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	end up doing sth
we	Let's end up doing sth
you	end up doing sth

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

cause to cease

stay

come to an end

stay, desist

to stop

anchor, cease, halt, stop

to cause to come to an end

stop

bring to completion

consummate

to put to death; to extinguish life.

annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck

To reach the end

complete

to finish (something)

conclude, consummate, discontinue, do, fullcome, round off, stay, stop, terminate

To make final or to finish

finalize

To complete something

finish

To endure to completion

get through

finish

fulfill, close, complete, conclude, terminate

stop

pass, cease, halt, vanish, conclude, abort, discontinue

die

expire, depart

Antonyms

to finish (something)

begin, commence, continue, execute, inaugurate, launch, maintain, proceed, restart, start

to pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another

desist, stop, proceed

to take the first step into something

begin

finish

start, begin, commence, originate

stop

start, initiate, open, proceed

die

live, exist, originate, develop

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“forehead; front”), from *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Yola een, eene (“end”), Saterland Frisian Eend, Eende (“end”), West Frisian ein (“end”), Alemannic German End, Endi (“end”), Central Franconian Eng, Enk (“end”), Cimbrian énte (“end”), Dutch eind, einde, end (“end”), German Ende (“end”), Luxembourgish Enn (“end”), Vilamovian end, ent (“end”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ende (“end”), Faroese endi (“end”), Icelandic endi, endir (“end”), Swedish ända, ände (“end”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 (andeis, “end”); also Irish éadan (“end; front”), Manx eddin (“face; front”), Scottish Gaelic aodann (“face; hillside”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Albanian anë (“brink; edge; facet; side”), Latvian no (“for; from”), Lithuanian nuo (“for; from”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ընդ (ənd, “in the place, instead of”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “against; towards; upon”), Tocharian A ānt (“in front”), Tocharian B ānte (“in front of”), Sanskrit अन्त (anta, “boundary; border, edge; end, termination”). More at and and anti-.
4. The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz. See: Swedish 'ända', Middle English 'enden', Old English 'endian', Proto-Germanic '*andijōną'.

Verbs referencing "end"

Low Saxon ennen, Danish ende, Norwegian ende.

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