conclude
verb
[ kənˈkluːd ]
• bring or come to an end.
• "they conclude their study with these words"
Similar:
finish,
end,
come to an end,
draw to a close,
wind up,
be over,
stop,
terminate,
close,
cease,
culminate,
bring to an end,
bring to a close,
dissolve,
round off,
wrap up,
put a period to,
• arrive at a judgement or opinion by reasoning.
• "the doctors concluded that Esther had suffered a stroke"
Similar:
come to the conclusion,
deduce,
infer,
draw the inference,
gather,
judge,
decide,
assume,
presume,
suppose,
conjecture,
surmise,
figure,
reckon,
collect,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘convince’): from Latin concludere, from con- ‘completely’ + claudere ‘to shut’.
in conclusion
• lastly; to sum up.
• "in conclusion, it is clear that the market is maturing"
Similar:
finally,
lastly,
in closing,
to conclude,
last but not least,
to sum up,
in short,
in fine,
