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1. The act of ending something
   "the ending of the agreement";
   - termination, conclusion
    
2. The point in time at which something ends
   "the ending of warranty period";
   - end
    
3. Event whose occurrence ends something
   "his death marked the ending of an era";
   - conclusion, finish
    
4. The last section of a communication
   - conclusion, end, close, closing
    
5. The end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
   "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending";
   - termination

1. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
   "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo";
   - stop, finish, terminate, cease
    
2. Bring to an end or halt
   "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime";
   - terminate
    
3. Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
   "This sad scene ended the movie";
   - terminate
    
4. Put an end to
   "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"

Derived forms: endings

Type of: alter, be, change, change of state, destroy, destruct, happening, modify, morpheme, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, point, point in time, section, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], subdivision, uncreate [literary]

Antonym: lead off, start out

Part of: address, narration, recital, speech, yarn

Encyclopedia: Ending