Conclude

//kənˈkluːd// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To end; to come to an end. intransitive

    "The story concluded with a moral."

  2. 2
    decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion wordnet
  3. 3
    To bring to an end; to close; to finish. transitive

    "I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state."

  4. 4
    bring to a close wordnet
  5. 5
    To bring about as a result; to effect; to make. transitive

    "to conclude a bargain"

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  1. 6
    reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation wordnet
  2. 7
    To come to a conclusion, to a final decision. transitive

    "From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered."

  3. 8
    reach agreement on wordnet
  4. 9
    To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide. obsolete

    "But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die."

  5. 10
    come to a close wordnet
  6. 11
    To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.

    "The defendant is concluded by his own plea."

  7. 12
    To shut up; to enclose. obsolete

    "The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave."

  8. 13
    To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine. obsolete

    "Banisht the Court? Let me be banisht Life; Since the chief end of Life is there concluded: Within the Court is all the Kingdom bounded, And as her sacred Sphear doth comprehend Ten thousand times so much, as so much Place In any part of all the Empire else; So every Body, moving in her Sphear, Contains Ten thousand times as much in him, As any other, her choice Orb excludes."

  9. 14
    to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Etymology

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).

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