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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Narrower term 68

Abolishment 76% connected

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.

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Abolition 76% connected

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade;…

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Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

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Abortion 76% connected

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriag…

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Adjournment 76% connected

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

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Anticlimax 76% connected

A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.

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Appointment 76% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

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Assignment 76% connected

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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Bathos 76% connected

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

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Breakup 76% connected

the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Closing 76% connected

of Close

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Closure 76% connected

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

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Coda 76% connected

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

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Completion 76% connected

The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.

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Culmination 76% connected

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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Defeat 76% connected

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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Demolition 76% connected

The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, t…

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Demonetization 76% connected

The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.

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Designation 76% connected

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

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Destruction 76% connected

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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Devastation 76% connected

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

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Disappearance 76% connected

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Discontinuance 76% connected

The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as,…

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Discontinuation 76% connected

Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

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Dismissal 76% connected

Dismission; discharge.

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Dismission 76% connected

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

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Dissolution 76% connected

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Epilogue 76% connected

A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.

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Extinction 76% connected

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

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Fade 76% connected

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

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Finale 76% connected

Close; termination

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Firing 76% connected

The act of disharging firearms.

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Halt 76% connected

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Killing 76% connected

of Kill

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Last 76% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Liberation 76% connected

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

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Licking 76% connected

of Lick

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Liquidation 76% connected

The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Naming 76% connected

of Name

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Non sequitur 76% connected

An inference which does not follow from the premises.

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Omega 76% connected

The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.

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Outcome 76% connected

That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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Overthrow 76% connected

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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Peroration 76% connected

The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.

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Predetermination 76% connected

The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will.

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Quenching 76% connected

of Quench

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Relinquishment 76% connected

The act of relinquishing.

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Resolution 76% connected

The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of…

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Result 76% connected

To leap back; to rebound.

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Resultant 76% connected

Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.

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Retirement 76% connected

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.

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Sack 76% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Sacking 76% connected

of Sack

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Settlement 76% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Sortition 76% connected

Selection or appointment by lot.

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Stop 76% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Termination 76% connected

The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

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Triumph 76% connected

A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

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Victory 76% connected

The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph;…

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Withdrawal 76% connected

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

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Assumption 76% connected

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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Choice 76% connected

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in prefe…

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Ending 76% connected

of End

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Mind 76% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Option 76% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Proposition 76% connected

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Selection 76% connected

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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Settlement 76% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Subdivision 76% connected

The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.

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Supposal 76% connected

The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

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Supposition 76% connected

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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Determine 74% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Determine 74% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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End 74% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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End 74% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Find 74% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Find 74% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Settle 74% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Settle 74% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Terminate 74% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Terminate 74% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Containing whole 6

Address 70% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Narration 70% connected

The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

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Recital 70% connected

The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

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Speech 70% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Syllogism 70% connected

The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the concl…

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Yarn 70% connected

Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting,…

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Synonym 12

Close 92% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Closing 92% connected

of Close

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Decision 92% connected

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

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Determination 92% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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End 92% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Ending 92% connected

of End

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Finale 92% connected

Close; termination

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Finis 92% connected

An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

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Finish 92% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Last 92% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Ratiocination 92% connected

The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.

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Termination 92% connected

The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

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