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ENDED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having come or been brought to a conclusion

Example:

the abruptly terminated interview

Synonyms:

all over; complete; concluded; ended; over; terminated

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

finished (ended or brought to an end)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb end

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 Context examples: 

In August 2015, NIH surprisingly ended the trial early after initial results showed that 3.3 years of intensive treatment significantly reduced the rates of death and cardiovascular disease.

(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)

After the transit ended, Hubble detected a second, and much smaller, decrease in the star’s brightness approximately 3.5 hours later.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

Last year, a fleet of NASA spacecraft got a detailed look at the life cycle of the 2018 global dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

And the higher response lasted until the infants were about two years old, when the study ended.

(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

It so happened that this chair was opposite a narrow passage, which ended in the little circular room where I had seen Uriah Heep's pale face looking out of the window.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Growl he would, from the moment the petting began till it ended.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Everyone thought the matter ended and the little cloud blown over, but the mischief was done, for though others forgot it, Meg remembered.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the path began nowhere and ended nowhere, and it remained mystery, as the man who made it and the reason he made it remained mystery.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

To me it seems only yesterday that my whole life ended with my new hope, and that truly I began a new record.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive iron gate.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)