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View synonyms for end up

end up

verb

  1. copula to become eventually; turn out to be

    he ended up a thief

  2. intr to arrive, esp by a circuitous or lengthy route or process

    he ended up living in New Zealand

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Arrive at, result in, finish. For example, He thought he'd end up living in the city , or We don't know how Nancy will end up . [First half of 1900s] Also see wind up .
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Example Sentences

Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.

And thus I end up at the bottom of the stairs, about one month after my injury and two months after my wedding.

That being said, it's sort of crazy that the two hot chicks end up sucking face for SO MUCH LONGER than any of the hetero couples.

“As soon as I began that life of crime, there was always a voice in my head telling me I was going to end up in jail,” he said.

When they do leave prison, these men are largely unemployable and ineligible to vote, and often end up back in the system.

Of course, if it's repeated enough, it will end up as a permanent paralysis of the part stimulated.

The reason is that when the board is struck it forces the other end up and the newspaper along with it.

The printed sign of direction, "This End up with Care," were upside down!

But the trouble was unknown, and they might end up rifling or pinwheeling if they didn't let bad enough alone.

Let's go out to that log that sticks end up out of the ice, and starting from that, skate back to see who can win a race.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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