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How to sign: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
"the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony end;
Similiar / Same: terminate, cease, finish, stop
Within this category: adjourn, break, conclude, culminate, cut out, discontinue, go out, lapse, pass away, run low, run out, turn out, vanish, vanish
How to sign: bring to an end or halt
"She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI";
Similiar / Same: terminate
Categories: alter, change, modify
Within this category: abort, ax, break, close, close, close out, closure, complete, conclude, culminate, decide, dissolve, dissolve, finalize, finish, interrupt, lift, phase out, stamp out, stub out
How to sign: either extremity of something that has length
"the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line";
Categories: extremity
Within this category: bitter end, bitthead, end point, finish, heel, heel, nerve ending, point, pole, railhead, telomere, terminus, tip, yardarm
