Synonym: cease, clean up, close, complete, conclude, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, result, stop, terminate, wind up. Antonym: begin, beginning, commence, start. Similar words: bend, on end, send, spend, blend, end up, trend, end in. Meaning: [end] 
n. 1. either extremity of something that has length 2. the point in time at which something ends 3. the concluding parts of an event or occurrence 4. the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it 5. a final part or section 6. a final state 7. the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object 8. (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage 9. one of two places from which people are communicating to each other 10. a boundary marking the extremities of something 11. the part you are expected to play 12. the last section of a communication 13. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold 14. a position on the line of scrimmage. v. 1. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical 2. bring to an end or halt 3. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of 4. put an end to.
n. 1. either extremity of something that has length 2. the point in time at which something ends 3. the concluding parts of an event or occurrence 4. the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it 5. a final part or section 6. a final state 7. the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object 8. (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage 9. one of two places from which people are communicating to each other 10. a boundary marking the extremities of something 11. the part you are expected to play 12. the last section of a communication 13. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold 14. a position on the line of scrimmage. v. 1. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical 2. bring to an end or halt 3. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of 4. put an end to. 1. There is no end to learning. 
2. Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.
3. Things rashly taken end as ill.
4. The end justifies (or sanctifies) the means.
5. The end justifies [sanctifies] the means.
6. As the life is, so is the end.
7. The end justifies the means.
8. In the end things will mend.
9. Of all war(s), peace is the end.
10. The longest day must have an end.
11. In every beginning think of the end.
12. An ill life, an ill end.
13. All good things must come to an end.
14. The longest day has an end.
15. That’s good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
16. Good to begin well, better to end well.
17. All good things came to an end.
18. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
19. A woman's work is never at an end.
20. The end crowns the work.
21. I now know that wars do not end wars.
22. Choice of the end covers choice of the means.
23. When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory.
24. Everything hath an end.
25. Don't let it end like this . Tell them I said something. Pancho villa, Mexican revolutionary.
26. A man has choice to begin love,[sentence dictionary] but not to end it.
27. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
28. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics.
29. Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
30. Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end.