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ending
A	noun
	1	termination, ending, conclusion
				the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚change ╚change of state ╚termination, ending, conclusion ╚destruction; devastation ╚dismissal; dismission; discharge; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking ╚adjournment; dissolution ╚overthrow ╚dissolution; breakup ╚relinquishment; relinquishing ╚retirement ╚completion; culmination; closing; windup; mop up ╚release; tone ending ╚demonetization; demonetisation
	2	ending, termination
				the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚part; portion; component part; component ╚language unit; linguistic unit ╚morpheme ╚ending, termination ╚inflectional ending; inflectional suffix ╚suffix; postfix
	3	conclusion, end, close, closing, ending
				the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..."
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚written communication; written language ╚writing; written material; piece of writing ╚section; subdivision ╚conclusion, end, close, closing, ending ╚finale; coda ╚peroration ╚epilogue; epilog ╚epilogue; epilog ╚anticlimax; bathos
	4	ending, conclusion, finish
				event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚ending, conclusion, finish ╚victory; triumph ╚stop; halt ╚omega; Z ╚destruction; demolition; wipeout ╚foregone conclusion; matter of course ╚result; resultant; final result; outcome; termination ╚end; last; final stage
	5	end, ending
				the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚point; point in time ╚end, ending ╚cease ╚stopping point; finale; finis; finish; last; conclusion; close ╚year-end ╚period ╚death; dying; demise ╚death; last

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Preposition at the end of a sentence. Sentence ending in with.
Letter ending - sport
Possessive - of names ending with s
Possessive - 's with names or plurals ending in s.
Ending in formal letters.
Wednesday .. day is the same ending of my first name.
Possessive - using 's with singular and plural words ending with s
everlasting / never-ending nightmare
Possessive - proper names ending in Z or S
Vowel ending words
Words ending in -sc
Words ending with -up meaning "a funny person"
Possessive of singular words ending in 's' - US Supreme Court take on the subject
words ending in "-tics"
cliff-hanger ending
Strongly ending a conversation
Pronunciation: past tenses of verbs ending in k, t, y
Superlative: of adjectives ending in -y.
ending with to
Summer is getting over/ending?
's-genitive with words ending in s(s)
he plays the tune non-stop = he plays the tune never-ending tune
Yours.... ending of email.
Possessive of nouns ending in silent "s"
the ending words of a certifying document
a never-ending story
Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical: historic/al, hysteric/al, electric/al, economic/al ... ...
contract ending
Words ending in f (plural)
Ending a sentence with a period after U.S.
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