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put an end to

• cause (someone or something) to stop existing or die.
• "injury put an end to his career"
Similar: destroy, kill, bring to an end, be the end of, end, extinguish, dash, quell, quash, ruin, wreck, shatter, smash, crush, scotch, stop, block, frustrate, thwart, put a stop to, prevent, defeat, derail, put paid to, do for, put the lid on, put the kibosh on, stymie, queer, scupper, dish, abolish, do away with, get rid of, scrap, terminate, eradicate, eliminate, exterminate, annihilate, stamp out, obliterate, wipe out, expunge, extirpate, annul, cancel, invalidate, nullify, void, dissolve, erase, delete, rescind, repeal, revoke, overturn, discontinue, remove, withdraw, retract, countermand, excise, drop, jettison, vitiate, abrogate, axe, ditch, junk, scrub, dump, chop, give something the chop, knock something on the head, deracinate,
Opposite: retain, create,

make an end of

• cause (someone or something) to stop existing or die.
• "we regret that the printers did not make an end of half-paid female labour"


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