"conclude" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /kən.ˈkluːd/ Audio: En-us-conclude.ogg [US] Forms: concludes [present, singular, third-person], concluding [participle, present], concluded [participle, past], concluded [past]
Rhymes: -uːd Etymology: From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of conclūdō. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|concluden}} Middle English concluden, {{der|en|la|conclūdere||to shut up, close, end}} Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”), {{m|la|conclūdō}} conclūdō Head templates: {{en-verb}} conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)
  1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end. Tags: intransitive Translations (to end): свършвам (svǎršvam) (Bulgarian), привършвам (privǎršvam) (Bulgarian), concloure (Catalan), besluiten (Dutch), concluderen (Dutch), konkludi (Esperanto), saattaa päätökseen (Finnish), viedä loppuun (Finnish), conclure (French), concluír (Galician), beenden (German), schließen (German), zu Ende führen (German), abschließen (German), konkli (Haitian Creole), befejez (Hungarian), lezár (Hungarian), vézgődik (Hungarian), befejeződik (Hungarian), konkluzar (Ido), finire (Italian), concludere (Italian), 終える (oeru) (Japanese), 締め括る (shimekukuru) (Japanese), whakakapi (english: a speech, lecture, or argument) (Maori), urupā (Maori), porotuki (Maori), porotukituki (Maori), belūcan (Old English), concluir (Portuguese), conchide (Romanian), încheia (Romanian), concluziona (Romanian), concluder (Romansch), заверша́ть (zaveršátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), заверши́ть (zaveršítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), зака́нчивать (zakánčivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), зако́нчить (zakónčitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), concluir (Spanish), kwisha (Swahili), bitirmek (Turkish), завершувати (zaveršuvaty) (Ukrainian), робити висновок (robyty vysnovok) (Ukrainian), gorffen (Welsh), שליסן (shlisn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-hkkLRh0u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 2 29 24 1 3 10 7 5 Disambiguation of 'to end': 44 15 0 7 0 0 24 11 0
  2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-rUNeSf~b
  3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-e-qPdNid Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 2 29 24 1 3 10 7 5
  4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision. Tags: transitive Translations (to come to a final decision): заключавам (zaključavam) (Bulgarian), concloure (Catalan), dojít k závěru (Czech), konkludi (Esperanto), tulla johtopäätökseen (Finnish), tehdä johtopäätös (Finnish), concluír (Galician), entscheiden (German), beschließen (German), jut (Hungarian), következtetésre jut (Hungarian), concludere (Italian), 結ぶ (musubu) (Japanese), 結論を出す (ketsuron wo dasu) (Japanese), نتیجه گرفتن (natije gereftan) (Persian), concluir (Portuguese), заключа́ть (zaključátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), заключи́ть (zaključítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), concluir (Spanish), komma fram till (Swedish), укладати (ukladaty) (Ukrainian), שליסן (shlisn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-Al5c37pH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 2 29 24 1 3 10 7 5 Disambiguation of 'to come to a final decision': 35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1
  5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-ZzB4~kc3
  6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-B-U5YEJ0
  7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-AQXS~gDi
  8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-w7Jj-WHW
  9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation) Categories (topical): Logic Translations (develop a causal relation): päätellä (Finnish), schließen (German), folgern (German), schlussfolgern (German), konkludieren (German), következtet (Hungarian), робити висновки (robyty vysnovky) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-conclude-en-verb-buaSAZxm Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'develop a causal relation': 3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: concludable, concluder, conclusible Related terms: conclusion, conclusive, disclude, include, occlude, preclude

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to end",
          "word": "încheia"
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          "sense": "to end",
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          "roman": "zakánčivatʹ",
          "sense": "to end",
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          "word": "зака́нчивать"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zakónčitʹ",
          "sense": "to end",
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          "word": "зако́нчить"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to end",
          "word": "concluir"
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          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "to end",
          "word": "kwisha"
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        {
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to end",
          "word": "bitirmek"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "zaveršuvaty",
          "sense": "to end",
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          "roman": "robyty vysnovok",
          "sense": "to end",
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          "code": "yi",
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          "text": "No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.",
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          "roman": "zaključavam",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "заключавам"
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          "code": "ca",
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          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "concloure"
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "dojít k závěru"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "konkludi"
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          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "tulla johtopäätökseen"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "tehdä johtopäätös"
        },
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "concluír"
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          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "entscheiden"
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        {
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "beschließen"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "jut"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "következtetésre jut"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "concludere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "musubu",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "結ぶ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ketsuron wo dasu",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "結論を出す"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "natije gereftan",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "نتیجه گرفتن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "concluir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "zaključátʹ",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
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          "word": "заключа́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zaključítʹ",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "заключи́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "concluir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "komma fram till"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "ukladaty",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "укладати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "35 2 6 47 3 2 3 2 1",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "shlisn",
          "sense": "to come to a final decision",
          "word": "שליסן"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses",
          "text": "But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide."
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        "(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide."
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        {
          "text": "The defendant is concluded by his own plea.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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        }
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        "To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive."
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          "bar"
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        "To shut up; to enclose."
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        "(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose."
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          "ref": "1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, act IV, scene VIII originally but scene VII in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume II, page 493",
          "text": "Banisht the Court? Let me be banisht Life;\nSince the chief end of Life is there concluded:\nWithin the Court is all the Kingdom bounded,\nAnd as her sacred Sphear doth comprehend\nTen thousand times so much, as so much Place\nIn any part of all the Empire else;\nSo every Body, moving in her Sphear,\nContains Ten thousand times as much in him,\nAs any other, her choice Orb excludes.",
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        }
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        "To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine."
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        "(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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        "(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)"
      ],
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        "mathematics",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
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        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "develop a causal relation",
          "word": "päätellä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "develop a causal relation",
          "word": "schließen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "develop a causal relation",
          "word": "folgern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "develop a causal relation",
          "word": "schlussfolgern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "develop a causal relation",
          "word": "konkludieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "develop a causal relation",
          "word": "következtet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 5 7 3 4 7 8 60",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "robyty vysnovky",
          "sense": "develop a causal relation",
          "word": "робити висновки"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/kən.ˈkluːd/"
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    {
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      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"to end\"",
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    {
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    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "IPA for English using .ˈ or .ˌ",
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    {
      "word": "concludable"
    },
    {
      "word": "concluder"
    },
    {
      "word": "conclusible"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "concluding",
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        "participle",
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      "word": "conclusion"
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    {
      "word": "conclusive"
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    {
      "word": "preclude"
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        {
          "text": "The story concluded with a moral.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling",
          "text": "He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.",
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        "(intransitive) To end; to come to an end."
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    {
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        "To bring to an end; to close; to finish."
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        "(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to conclude a bargain",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring about as a result; to effect; to make."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "text": "From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies",
          "text": "No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To come to a conclusion, to a final decision."
      ],
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          "decision"
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        "(transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses",
          "text": "But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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    {
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "The defendant is concluded by his own plea.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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          "type": "example"
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        "To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive."
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          "bar"
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    {
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        "To shut up; to enclose."
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        "(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose."
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          "ref": "1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, act IV, scene VIII originally but scene VII in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume II, page 493",
          "text": "Banisht the Court? Let me be banisht Life;\nSince the chief end of Life is there concluded:\nWithin the Court is all the Kingdom bounded,\nAnd as her sacred Sphear doth comprehend\nTen thousand times so much, as so much Place\nIn any part of all the Empire else;\nSo every Body, moving in her Sphear,\nContains Ten thousand times as much in him,\nAs any other, her choice Orb excludes.",
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        "To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine."
      ],
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        "to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)"
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          "deduce"
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          "infer"
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        "(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)"
      ],
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        "logic",
        "mathematics",
        "philosophy",
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/kən.ˈkluːd/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːd"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "svǎršvam",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "свършвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "privǎršvam",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "привършвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concloure"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "besluiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concluderen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "konkludi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "saattaa päätökseen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "viedä loppuun"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "conclure"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concluír"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "beenden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "schließen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "zu Ende führen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "abschließen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ht",
      "lang": "Haitian Creole",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "konkli"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "befejez"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "lezár"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "vézgődik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "befejeződik"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "konkluzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "finire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concludere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "oeru",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "終える"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shimekukuru",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "締め括る"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "english": "a speech, lecture, or argument",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "whakakapi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "urupā"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "porotuki"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "porotukituki"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "belūcan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concluir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "conchide"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "încheia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concluziona"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concluder"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaveršátʹ",
      "sense": "to end",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заверша́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaveršítʹ",
      "sense": "to end",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заверши́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zakánčivatʹ",
      "sense": "to end",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "зака́нчивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zakónčitʹ",
      "sense": "to end",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "зако́нчить"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "concluir"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "kwisha"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "bitirmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zaveršuvaty",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "завершувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "robyty vysnovok",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "робити висновок"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "gorffen"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "shlisn",
      "sense": "to end",
      "word": "שליסן"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zaključavam",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "заключавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "concloure"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "dojít k závěru"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "konkludi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "tulla johtopäätökseen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "tehdä johtopäätös"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "concluír"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "entscheiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "beschließen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "jut"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "következtetésre jut"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "concludere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "musubu",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "結ぶ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ketsuron wo dasu",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "結論を出す"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "natije gereftan",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "نتیجه گرفتن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "concluir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaključátʹ",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заключа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaključítʹ",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заключи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "concluir"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "komma fram till"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ukladaty",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "укладати"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "shlisn",
      "sense": "to come to a final decision",
      "word": "שליסן"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "develop a causal relation",
      "word": "päätellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "develop a causal relation",
      "word": "schließen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "develop a causal relation",
      "word": "folgern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "develop a causal relation",
      "word": "schlussfolgern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "develop a causal relation",
      "word": "konkludieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "develop a causal relation",
      "word": "következtet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "robyty vysnovky",
      "sense": "develop a causal relation",
      "word": "робити висновки"
    }
  ],
  "word": "conclude"
}

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