CONCLUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conclude mean? 

• CONCLUDE (verb)
  The verb CONCLUDE has 5 senses:

1. decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

2. bring to a close

3. reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation

4. come to a close

5. reach agreement on

  Familiarity information: CONCLUDE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCLUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they conclude    ... he / she / it concludes   
Past simple: concluded   
Past participle: concluded   
-ing form: concluding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

conclude; reason; reason out

Context example:

We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house

Hypernyms (to "conclude" is one way to...):

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conclude"):

induce (reason or establish by induction)

deduce; deduct; derive; infer (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)

syllogise; syllogize (reason by syllogisms)

feel; find (come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds)

deduce; infer (conclude by reasoning; in logic)

gather (conclude from evidence)

extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They conclude that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

conclusion (the act of making up your mind about something)

conclusive (forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring to a close

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

The committee concluded the meeting

Hypernyms (to "conclude" is one way to...):

end; terminate (bring to an end or halt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conclude"):

perorate (conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

conclusion (the act of ending something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

conclude; resolve

Hypernyms (to "conclude" is one way to...):

agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conclude"):

determine; settle; square off; square up (settle conclusively; come to terms)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

conclusion (the act of making up your mind about something)

conclusive (forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Come to a close

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

close; conclude

Context example:

The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin

Hypernyms (to "conclude" is one way to...):

cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Reach agreement on

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

We concluded a cease-fire

Hypernyms (to "conclude" is one way to...):

agree (achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

On second thought he concluded that he had been wrong about the speed with which things found their way into newspaper columns.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As our visitor concluded, Holmes sprang up without a word, handed me my hat, picked his own from the table, and followed Dr. Trevelyan to the door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He said, “they saw my stick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that some unhappy man must be shut up in the cavity.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My aunt concluded this philosophical summary, by fixing her eyes with a kind of triumph on Agnes, whose colour was gradually returning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Having once told me that the Piccadilly house—which throughout our interview he called a "mansion"—was sold, he considered my business as concluded.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Pickings, he concluded; Cooky’s pickings.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This concluded the examination of the witness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have a house in town, I conclude?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I listened, but they were not repeated, and I concluded that they came from outside.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you’re not concluding a deal or contract, you could have your sister or brother on your mind.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)