Wiktionary

conclude

English

edit

Etymology

edit

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /kənˈkluːd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːd

Verb

edit

conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)

  1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
    The story concluded with a moral.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
  2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
    • a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
      I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
  3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
    to conclude a bargain
  4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
    From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies:
      No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
  5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
    • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:
      But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
  6. (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
    The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
    A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
      If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
  7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
  9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Antonyms

edit

Derived terms

edit
edit

Translations

edit

Italian

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /konˈklu.de/
  • Rhymes: -ude
  • Hyphenation: con‧clù‧de

Verb

edit

conclude

  1. third-person singular present indicative of concludere

Latin

edit

Verb

edit

conclūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of conclūdō

Piedmontese

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Verb

edit

conclude

  1. to conclude

Romanian

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Latin concludere or Italian concludere.

Pronunciation

edit

Verb

edit

a conclude (third-person singular present conclude, past participle conclus) 3rd conjugation

  1. to conclude

Conjugation

edit
    conjugation of conclude (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitive a conclude
gerund concluzând
past participle conclus
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present conclud concluzi conclude concludem concludeți conclud
imperfect concludeam concludeai concludea concludeam concludeați concludeau
simple perfect conclusei concluseși concluse concluserăm concluserăți concluseră
pluperfect conclusesem concluseseși conclusese concluseserăm concluseserăți concluseseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să conclud să concluzi să concludă să concludem să concludeți să concludă
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative conclude concludeți
negative nu conclude nu concludeți

Further reading

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=conclude&oldid=83046935"
  NODES
Note 1