"bring to an end" meaning in English

See bring to an end in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: brings to an end [present, singular, third-person], bringing to an end [participle, present], brought to an end [participle, past], brought to an end [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bring<,,brought> to an end}} bring to an end (third-person singular simple present brings to an end, present participle bringing to an end, simple past and past participle brought to an end)
  1. (transitive) To cause to stop or complete. Tags: transitive Synonyms: bring an end to, bring to a close, put an end to, put a stop to, put the kibosh on
    Sense id: en-bring_to_an_end-en-verb-fEsP0gnl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings to an end",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing to an end",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to an end",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to an end",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> to an end"
      },
      "expansion": "bring to an end (third-person singular simple present brings to an end, present participle bringing to an end, simple past and past participle brought to an end)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to stop or complete."
      ],
      "id": "en-bring_to_an_end-en-verb-fEsP0gnl",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause to stop or complete."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bring an end to"
        },
        {
          "word": "bring to a close"
        },
        {
          "word": "put an end to"
        },
        {
          "word": "put a stop to"
        },
        {
          "word": "put the kibosh on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring to an end"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings to an end",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing to an end",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to an end",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to an end",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> to an end"
      },
      "expansion": "bring to an end (third-person singular simple present brings to an end, present participle bringing to an end, simple past and past participle brought to an end)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to stop or complete."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause to stop or complete."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bring an end to"
        },
        {
          "word": "bring to a close"
        },
        {
          "word": "put an end to"
        },
        {
          "word": "put a stop to"
        },
        {
          "word": "put the kibosh on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring to an end"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bring to an end meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.