End Definition
(text messaging) Attend (any sense)
A suffix forming nouns denoting patients or recipients of actions, such as addend, subtrahend, and dividend.
- Out of energy or patience; exhausted or exasperated.
- When everything is considered; in the final analysis.
- To commit suicide.
- Eventually; ultimately:
All will turn out well in the end.
- A great deal:
She had no end of stories to tell. The news upset us no end.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to End
- at the end of (one's) rope
- at the end of the day
- end it all
- in the end
- no end
- on end
- end for end
- ends of the earth
- end to end
- end up
- in the end
- keep one's end up
- make an end of
- make (both) ends meet
- no end
- on end
- put an end to
- to end
Origin of End
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From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (compare Dutch einde, German Ende, Swedish ände), from Proto-Indo-European *antios (compare Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antios, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”)), from *h₂enti (“opposite”). More at anti.
From Wiktionary
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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.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English ende from Old English ant- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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