Word meaning to come to an end

come to an end

To wind down to an ending or conclusion. Festivities came to an end well after the sun had risen the next morning. I’m just dreading when the nice summer weather finally comes to an end.

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come to an end

1. Conclude, terminate, as in the familiar proverb, All things come to an end, stated by Geoffrey Chaucer in Troilus and Cressida (c. 1374).

2. come to a bad end; come to no good. Have a bad outcome or die in an unpleasant way. For example, I always suspected this venture would come to no good, or Her parents feared he would come to a bad end.

3. come to or meet an untimely end . Die at a young age, terminate much sooner than desired or expected. For example, The blow was fatal, causing the young boxer to meet an untimely end, or Our partnership came to an untimely end when I became too ill to work. Also see dead end.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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  • untimely
  • have an out
  • give (someone) an out
  • step on
  • stepped on
  • see a light at the end of the tunnel
  • see the light at the end of the tunnel
  • on the road again
  • round the turn
  • Hollywood ending
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    come to an end

     закончиться

    The party came to an end at midnight.

    English-Russian small dictionary of idioms > come to an end

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    come to the end of ones rope

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > come to the end of ones rope

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    come to an end

    Персональный Сократ > come to an end

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    come to an end

    end format — конец команды «формат», начало набора текста

    English-Russian base dictionary > come to an end

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    come to an end

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > come to an end

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    come to the end of one’s tether

    Concise English-Russian phrasebook > come to the end of one’s tether

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    come to the end of one’s rope

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > come to the end of one’s rope

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    come nearer the end

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > come nearer the end

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    come to an end

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > come to an end

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    come to the end of

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > come to the end of

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    come to the end of (one’s) tether

    Макаров:

    дойти до предела

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > come to the end of (one’s) tether

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    come to the end of endurance

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > come to the end of endurance

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    come to the end of tether

    2) Макаров: дойти до предела, до последней черты, дойти до последней черты, дойти до предела , дойти до точки, исчерпать все возможности, исчерпать свои возможности

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > come to the end of tether

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    come to an end

    заканчиваться, завершаться

    Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > come to an end

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    come to the end of one’s tether

    дойти до предела (сил); исчерпать свои возможности; дойти до точки

    Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > come to the end of one’s tether

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    come to the end

    English-Russian dictionary of terms for geological exploration drilling > come to the end

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    come nearer the end

    Новый англо-русский словарь > come nearer the end

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    come to an end

    закончить, кончиться

    Новый англо-русский словарь > come to an end

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    come to the end of one’s tether

    дойти до предела, дойти до точки, исчерпать свои возможности

    Новый англо-русский словарь > come to the end of one’s tether

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    come to an end

     v.

    končati sę · кончати се

    vi.

    , skončiti sę · скончити се

    vp.

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: to reach an end

The work has finally come to an end.

After three weeks the strike finally came to an end.

Summer always seems to come to an end much too quickly.

The curtain fell as the play came to an end.

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“Come to an end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20to%20an%20end. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.

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As attitudes change, this market inequality may come to an end.



По мере изменения восприятия феномена оригинальности в искусстве, это рыночное неравенство может подойти к концу.


The era of low-tech agriculture has to come to an end.



Эра низкотехнологичного сельского хозяйства должна подойти к концу.


Speaking about why it closed, the Navi-X team said: Every good thing must come to an end.



Говоря о том, почему он закрылся, команда Navi-X сказала: «Все хорошее должно закончиться.


Nor should we reasonably expect that the bloodshed will come to an end anytime soon.



Однако не стоит ждать, что кровавая бойня закончится в ближайшее время.


The first five year action plan of the accelerated innovative industrialization program will come to an end in two years time.



Через два года завершится первая пятилетка реализации программы форсированной инновационной индустриализации.


At that time, the public voting will come to an end.



В этот день народное голосование завершится.


And your life has come to an end.


The conference has come to an end and I would like to thank everyone for a wonderful week.



Фестиваль закончился и нам хочется сказать огромное спасибо всем за этот замечательный проект.


The political war that continued for more than a month has finally come to an end.



Территориальная война, которая длилась более двух месяцев, наконец-то завершилась.


My sixteen year television run had come to an end.


My short filmmaking journey has come to an end.


I hated to see the story come to an end.


Her mother’s patience had come to an end, so she took her own gun and shot her husband.



Терпение ее матери подошло к концу, поэтому она взяла свой пистолет и застрелила мужа.


Though your world has been visited many times in the past, your isolated state has come to an end.



Хотя ваш мир посещался в прошлом много раз, ваше изолированное состояние подошло к концу.


However, it can also be a problem in the future when commercial mining will come to an end.



Вместе с тем она также может стать проблемой в будущем, когда коммерческий майнинг подойдёт к концу.


But the ease with which we could use it has come to an end.



Но легкость, с которой мы могли это использовать, подошла к концу.


We just have to splash spray into each of the conflicting parties and the family scene will quickly come to an end.



Надо лишь брызнуть спрей в каждую из конфликтующих сторон и семейная сцена быстро подойдет к концу.


I hope that someday this absurdity that humanity has come to will come to an end.



Надеюсь, что когда-нибудь эта абсурдность, которую достигло человечество, закончится.


So GM will see this sad story come to an end in several years or maybe never.



Таким образом, GM увидит, что эта печальная история закончится через несколько лет или, возможно, никогда.


We must recognize that the old historical rhythm that laid the foundations of the Western liberal order has come to an end.



Мы должны признать, что старый исторический ритм, заложивший основы западного либерального порядка, подошел к концу.

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Translator English — Chinese


走到尽头

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English — Spanish


llegado a su fin

570 millions of speakers

Translator English — Hindi


समाप्त हो

380 millions of speakers

Translator English — Arabic


وصل إلى نهايته

280 millions of speakers

Translator English — Russian


подошел к концу

278 millions of speakers

Translator English — Portuguese


chegou ao fim

270 millions of speakers

Translator English — Bengali


শেষ হয়ে যাবে

260 millions of speakers

Translator English — French


arriver à une fin

220 millions of speakers

Translator English — Malay


Berakhir

190 millions of speakers

Translator English — German


zu einem Ende kommen

180 millions of speakers

Translator English — Japanese


終わる

130 millions of speakers

Translator English — Korean


끝이 있기 마련

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Javanese


Rampung

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Vietnamese


chấm dứt

80 millions of speakers

Translator English — Tamil


ஒரு முடிவிற்கு வந்துள்ளது

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Marathi


शेवट व्हा

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Turkish


sona ermek

70 millions of speakers

Translator English — Italian


giunta al termine

65 millions of speakers

Translator English — Polish


dobiegła końca

50 millions of speakers

Translator English — Ukrainian


підійшов до кінця

40 millions of speakers

Translator English — Romanian


ajuns la capăt

30 millions of speakers

Translator English — Greek


έρθει σε ένα τέλος

15 millions of speakers

Translator English — Afrikaans


kom tot ´n einde

14 millions of speakers

Translator English — Swedish


komma till ett slut

10 millions of speakers

Translator English — Norwegian


komme til en slutt

5 millions of speakers

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10 QUOTES WITH «COME TO AN END»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word come to an end.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it’s a TV show or life.

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you’d have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

I’ve gotta believe that my managing tenure has come to an end here.

It’s important to me that on ‘Family Feud’ I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on ‘Family Feud’ and the world didn’t come to an end, did it?

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

Being in ‘Doctor Who’ has been so amazing. I don’t think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

It’s always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don’t know if I’m good enough to have a long career. I’ve got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COME TO AN END»

Discover the use of come to an end in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to come to an end and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

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Posthistoire: Has History Come to an End?

Here, Lutz Niethammer, Germany’s leading practitioner of ‘history from below’, explores in fascinating detail the forms the conception has taken in the twentieth century and assembles what amounts to an intellectual history of disillusion …

2

The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems …

Bilingual volume of one of Europe’s most reverred poets, with introduction by Robert Bly.

3

More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

. Welcome to the frightening world of Scary Stories, a collection of folklorist Alvin Schwartz’s most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time, with spine-tingling illustrations by renowned artist Brett …

4

All Good Things Come to an End: Free Teen eSampler

Free Teen eSampler Kate Brian, Jessica Verday, Richard Yancey, Scott
Westerfeld, Becca Fitzpatrick. at the thought of having to choose between
Stanford, Yale, and… what’s that big one with the H?” I stared at him a moment,
shaken by how …

Kate Brian, Jessica Verday, Richard Yancey, 2011

That » fire as such naturally tends to an end, and will, in time,» by the laws of
nature, » actually come to an end.'»‘ This, like many other of Dr. C’s arguments, if it
prove anything, proves too much, and therefore really proves nothing. It depends
on …

Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards, 1850

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All Good Things Must Come to an End

FBI Agent Jason Holcombs life was picture perfect.

7

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

Oh that the wickedness of the wicked might come to an end, before it bring them
to an end! II. An evil, an only evil, behold, has come,v. 5.

8

Anmerkungen Zu Hitler. English

And after the attempt on his life on 20 July 1944: ‘If my life had come to an end
then for me personally- 1 can say this- it would have merely been a liberation
from worries, sleepless nights and grave nervous disease. It is only the fraction of
a …

9

Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 3) — …

Section 17 makes provision in relation to Scottish Water’s duty to provide water
services, when the arrangements between a licensed water services provider
and the occupier of eligible premises have come to an end. 77. Subsection ( 1 ) …

Scotland, HM Government, 2005

10

Golf and Philosophy: Lessons from the Links

Sometimes the joy we take in playing a great round of golf is mitigated by the fact
that play must come to an end after the regulation eighteen holes have been
played. When the drives have been long and straight, chipping has been clean
and …

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COME TO AN END»

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All Market Bubbles Must Come To An End

dollar money bubble Tony Daltorio: Since hitting a high on June 12, the Shanghai Composite Index has tumbled nearly 30%. The recent rout in … «ETF Daily News, Jul 15»

No More ‘Roar’ as Famed Trading Pits Come to an End

Pete Meegan had every intention of going back to college, but then he got a summer job in the Chicago trading pits and fell in love with the … «Top Tech News, Jul 15»

No more «roar» as famed trading pits come to an end

Traders with colorful jackets shout in a futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Many pits will close Monday. (Anne Ryan, Associated … «The Denver Post, Jul 15»

Minnesota Twins: All-Star Game fan voting must come to an end

The starting lineups for the MLB All-Star Game were announced last night and luckily, only four Kansas City Royals’ were named as starters. «isportsweb.com, Jul 15»

18-year legal battle over Dubai properties finally comes to an end

A Dubai legal dispute, which has lasted 18 years, has finally come to an end after the judge ruled on the ownership of two properties at the … «ArabianBusiness.com, Jul 15»

Playgolf Colchester teams’ winning runs come to an end

THREE of the Playgolf Colchester squads ended winning runs, with two getting the furthest in their respective competitions the club has ever gone, showing … «Chelmsford Weekly News, Jul 15»

The World Has Officially Come to an End: New Bubble Wrap …

But like everything in life, all good things must come to an end—and sadly, bubble wrap is one of those things. We know, we’re crying too. «Womans Day, Jul 15»

Irish weather: Sunny conditions expected to end as rain forecast for …

We’ve got some bad news, the magnificent weather that Ireland has enjoyed in recent days is about to come to an end. The nation has enjoyed … «Irish Mirror, Jul 15»

Reader believes that America has come to an end

The Executive Branch with the help of the NSA has played the same card as J. Edgar Hoover. They have enough information now on everyone … «Smith Mountain Eagle, Jul 15»

The era of IT-as-a-roadblock must come to an end right now

A recent article on TechRepublic asked the question «Does anyone still want to be CIO?» Among other things it highlighted the growing trend of … «TechRepublic, Jul 15»

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