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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finish, demise |
| Synonyms: | cessation, close, closing, conclusion, death, decease, departure, dying, elapsing, end, expiry, going, passing, termination, terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, birth, commencement, inception, start |
| Main Entry: | completion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplishment, finishing |
| Synonyms: | achievement, attainment, close, conclusion, consummation, culmination, curtains, dispatch, end, expiration, finalization, finis, finish, fruition, fulfillment, hips, integration, perfection, realization, swan song, windup, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | anticlimax, imperfection |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | demise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, usually death |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination |
| Notes: | demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | completion, stop |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, adjournment, attainment, bottom line, cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, conclusion, consequence, consummation, culmination, curtain, denouement, desistance, desuetude, determination, discontinuance, execution, expiration, expiry, finale, finis, finish, fulfillment, issue, last word, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection, realization, resolution, result, retirement, sign-off, target, termination, terminus, upshot, windup, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, opening, start |
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death, destruction |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, demise, dissolution, doom, expiration, extermination, extinction, finish, passing, ruin, ruination |
| Antonyms: | birth, construction, creation |
| Main Entry: | ending |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion |
| Synonyms: | catastrophe, cessation, close, closing, closure, completion, consummation, coup de grace, culmination, denouement, desistance, dissolution, epilogue, expiration, finale, finish, lapse, omega, outcome, period, resolution, stop, summation, swan song, termination, terminus, upshot, wane, windup |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, introduction, opening, start |
| Main Entry: | exit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | adieu, death, demise, departure, egress, egression, evacuation, exodus, expiration, expiry, farewell, going, goodbye, leave-taking, offgoing, retirement, retreat, stampede, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | arrival, arriving, coming, entering, entrance |
| Main Entry: | exhalation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breathing out |
| Synonyms: | breath, exhaling, expiration, respiration |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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