end up
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editend up (third-person singular simple present ends up, present participle ending up, simple past and past participle ended up)
- (transitive) To bring to a conclusion.
- The band usually ends up their concerts with their biggest hit song.
- (copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.
- They ended up angry at each other.
- He ended up as an insurance agent.
- I was going for a stroll, and ended up lost.
- (transitive) To lift or tilt, so as to set on end.
- to end up a hogshead
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edit- (to bring to a conclusion): conclude, end, finish up, wind up
- (come to a final place, condition, situation): wind up, turn out
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editturn out
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arrive at a destination
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eventually do
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editend up
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) in the end; it turns out that
- 2018 June 1, “【
道具 鈔惹禍 】製 片 申請 被 拒 湯 家 驊斥自我 中心 :星 戰 都 唔會太 空 拍 ”, in 蘋果日報 [Apple Daily][1], archived from the original on 2021-06-21:- daan6 taa1 zi2 fso zoi3 kap1 jyu5 jat1 wai6-2 gam1 gun2 guk6-2 jan4 jyun4 dik1 din6 waa6-2, “gam2 joeng6-2 loi4 loi4 wong5 wong5 ngo5 gau3 zung1 paak3 laa3, mai6 paak3 jam1 si1 zi2 lo1 en1 ap1”. [Jyutping]
- But she says that FSO then provided a telephone number of a HKMA personnel; “the time would have been up for me if I were to go back and forth [for all the paperwork] in such way, so it ended up being shooting with hell money as props.”
但 她指 fso再 給 予 一 位 金管 局 人員 的 電話 ,「咁樣來 來往 往我 夠鐘拍 喇,咪拍 陰 司 紙 囉end up」。 [Cantonese, trad.]但 她指 fso再 给予一 位 金管 局 人 员的 电话,「咁样来 来往 往我 够钟拍 喇,咪拍 阴司纸啰end up」。 [Cantonese, simp.]
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