Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. To conclude, turn out, sometimes unexpectedly.
- v. idiomatic To arrive at a destination, sometimes unexpectedly.
- v. of a set of events To eventually do
WordNet 3.0
- v. finally be or do something
Examples
“A recent study comparing thirty-four heroin addicts in a treatment program with fifty-nine non-drug-using controls found that addicts were significantly higher on our scales of present hedonism and fatalism, and significantly lower in future orientation.18 But how can time perspective end up oiling the slippery slope to drug addiction?”
“JESSICA: Well, I knew it would end up with me doing everything!”
“Since the more sadistic of the golf gods seemed to be in charge that day, he would end up in four bunkers in the first five holes, but though hed throw out an occasional Schiessa! he really handled things fairly well.”
“En route to the dance floor, our new friend Valter would cut down a few tree branches, uproot a few fistfuls of M&Cs high rough, and end up with some number he did not make public.”
“Pickling his brain, and much too young to end up relish.”
“Once-solid middle-class people can end up out on the streets through the unexpected consequences of divorce, illness, or unforeseen loss of employment.”
“How can You look great! end up being heard as Its nice to see you make an effortfor a change?”
“Canada sinks, the real challenge would be creating the tiger along with the other animals - the hyena, zebra and orangutan - that end up in Pi's lifeboat.”
“In June, the State Department regularly dubbed unresponsive by the Kennedy folk drafted a high-priority statement concerning Berlin and sent it promptly to the White House for review, only to have it end up in the safe of Ralph Dungan, one of Kennedys special assistants, who then went off on a two-week holiday.”
“He liked making decisions within small groups and in informal settings, where everyone could relax, let their hair down a bit, put their cowboy boots on the table, crack naughty jokes, banter about the issues of the dayand where he could be sure that what transpired there wouldnt end up on the front page of the next days Washington Post.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘end up’.
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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phrases
many a, in regard to, with regard to, allow for, in accordance with, thank to, on demand, disallow for, no such, in turn, as to, cutting edge and 29 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Reversible words
turnover, overturn, overtake, takeover, wayside, sideway, windup, upwind, takeout, outtake, upend, end up and 41 more...
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Most Frequently Used English Idioms
about to, according to, account for, after all, all of a sudden, as far as, as for, as if, as long as, as soon as, as to, as well as and 70 more...
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Words to learn
omit, in all likelihood, unlikely, utterly, every now and then, once in a while, deceptive, show off, reckon, ever since, after all, consequence and 52 more...
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