End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| way | end way | fizzle way |
Both words in one sentence
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Someone Has to Die: At the end of The Atrocity Archive, someone has to stay behind to blow up the nuke manually and cause a "fizzle".
Source: Literature / The Laundry Series -
Characters including Hastings, Stan Traub, Devin, Jamarcus, Epyck are set up for storylines that either never materialise, fizzle out quickly or end abruptly without resolution.
Source: Series / Friday Night Lights -
One nice touch is that names change from place to place—a powerful spell from one end of the world will fizzle and die at the other.
Source: Functional Magic aka: Magic
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Fizzle and End. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/fizzle
End & Fizzle. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/fizzle>.
Fizzle or End. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/fizzle.
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