Ended and Tied up

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Ended adjective - Brought or having come to an end.

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Tied up and ended are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tied up" instead an adjective "Ended".

Nearby Words: end, ending

Tied up adjective - Kept occupied or engaged.

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Ended and tied up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ended" instead an adjective phrase "Tied up".

Something of an inversion, Vader was the one that threw Cactus Jack into the ropes, where Cactus Jack got tied up and ended up losing most of one of his ears.

Source: Wrestling / Vader aka: Big Van Vader
Averted in Josh Lesnick's Wendy: The comic ended before Josh could introduce this trope and further send his series into full-blown Cerebus Syndrome, and only revealed his original ideas for the ending after he finally went back and tied up all the loose ends years later.

Source: Rape as Backstory
To make matters worse, the original published ending was VERY open-ended, with a lot of loose strings not tied up until the final collected volume was released several months later with an additional epilogue added onto the end.

Source: Manga / Chrono Crusade

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