conclude

Meaning

Verb

• To end; to come to an end.
• To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
• To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
• To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
• To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
• To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
• To shut up; to enclose.
• To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
• to deduce, to infer

Related

Opposite words

• begin, initiate, start, commence

Origin

• From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere ("to shut up, close, end"), present active infinitive of conclūdō.