Ending — synonyms, ending antonyms, definition

1. ending (Noun)

abatement adjournment attainment cessation close closing completion conclusion culmination death denouement dismissal dissolution end finale finish remission suppression termination beginning

ending (Noun) — The end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme). ex. "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"

ending (Noun) — The act of ending something. ex. "the ending of the agreement"

ending (Noun) — The point in time at which something ends. ex. "the ending of warranty period"

ending (Noun) — Event whose occurrence ends something. ex. "his death marked the ending of an era"

ending (Noun) — The last section of a communication.

change of state happening morpheme natural event occurrence occurrent point point in time section subdivision Epilog Z abolishment abolition abort abortion adjournment anticlimax bathos breakup cease chuck close closedown closing closure coda completion conclusion culmination • • • address narration recital speech yarn

2. ending (Verb)

ceasing finishing stopping terminating beginning

ending (Verb) — Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. ex. "My property ends by the bushes" ex. "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

ending (Verb) — Bring to an end or halt. ex. "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"

ending (Verb) — Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of. ex. "This sad scene ended the movie"

ending (Verb) — Put an end to. ex. "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"

altering being changing destroying destructing modifying spifflicating spiflicating aborting adjourning adjudicating axing breaking breaking off breaking up climaxing closing closing out closuring cloturing coming out completing concluding crushing out culminating cutting out deciding disappearing • • •