Usually means: Cease to continue or exist.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. come to an end: Merriam-Webster
  2. come to an end: Collins English Dictionary
  3. come to an end: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. come to an end: Wiktionary
  5. Come to an End: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come to an end: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come to an end: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come to an end)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To stop; to cease; to no longer continue.

Similar:
close, finish, bring to an end, stop, draw to an end, terminate, bring an end to, put an end to, come to a close, stay, more...

Opposite:
continue, persist, endure, last, carry on

Phrases:
to come to an end, come to an abrupt end, must come to an end, bring or come to an end, more...

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Similar:
close, finish, bring to an end, stop, draw to an end, terminate, bring an end to, put an end to, come to a close, stay, more...

Opposite:
continue, persist, endure, last, carry on

Phrases:
to come to an end, come to an abrupt end, must come to an end, bring or come to an end, more...



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