ENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ended mean? 

• ENDED (adjective)
  The adjective ENDED has 1 sense:

1. having come or been brought to a conclusion

  Familiarity information: ENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having come or been brought to a conclusion

Synonyms:

all over; complete; concluded; ended; over; terminated

Context example:

the abruptly terminated interview

Similar:

finished (ended or brought to an end)

 Context examples 

And so it ended in caresses and love-laughter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The two creatures stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen with great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed frequently towards each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation.

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

Your power over our band is now ended, and you will never see us again.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Well, it ended by their taking Blessington and hanging him.

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

It began with a thin scratch and ended in a jagged hole.

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

Jorindel turned to see the reason, and beheld his Jorinda changed into a nightingale, so that her song ended with a mournful jug, jug.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Although the Cassini mission ended in September 2017, the data it provided will be mined for decades.

(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)

A legal battle over a 10,600-year-old ancient skeleton – called the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’ – has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

It is possible the process of moon formation in Saturn's rings has ended with Peggy, as Saturn's rings now are, in all likelihood, too depleted to make more moons.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

Many similar worlds have been discovered by NASA's Kepler space observatory, whose mission ended in 2018.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)