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Roget-categorie 67

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.4. Order
›› 1.4.2. Consecutive order

#67. End

zelfstandig naamwoord

end, close, termination — desinence^†, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega — extreme, extremity — gable end, butt end, fag-end — tip, nib, point — tail etc. (rear) 235 — verge etc. (edge) 231 — tag, peroration — bonne bouche [Fr.] — bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.
consummation, denouement — finish etc. (completion) 729 — fate — doom, doomsday — crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain — goal, destination — limit, determination — expiration, expiry^†, extinction, extermination — death etc. 360 — end of all things — finality — eschatology.
break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point — coup de grace, deathblow — knock-out-blow — sockdolager [U.S.].

werkwoord

end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over — expire — die etc. 360 — come-, draw-to-a-close etc. n. — have run its course — run out, pass away.
bring to an end etc. n. — put an end to, make an end of — determine — get through — achieve etc. (complete) 729 — stop etc. (make to cease) 142 — shut up shop — hang up one's fiddle.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

ending etc. v. — final, terminal, definitive — crowning etc. (completing) 729 — last, ultimate — hindermost^† — rear etc. 235 — caudal — vergent^†.
conterminate^†, conterminous, conterminable^†.
ended etc. v. — at an end — settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest — conclusive.
penultimate — last but one, last but two, etc. unbegun, uncommenced^† — fresh.

bijwoord

finally etc. adj. — in fine — at the last — once for all.

uitdrukking

as high as Heaven and as deep as hell" [Beaumont and Fletcher]; deficit omne quod nascitur [Lat.] [Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin [Fr.] — finem respice [Lat.] — ultimus Romanorum [Lat.].

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