intransitive. Of water, sand, etc.: to flow out of the container, part, etc., which contains it; to leak out.

Of a period of time, action, continuous state, series, book, chapter, etc.: To come to an end. Also colloquial to end up.

Of processes, conditions, impersonal agencies: To cease, abate, come to an end. Obsolete.

To come to an end; to cease. Obsolete.

intransitive. Of time, an action, experience, etc.: to pass away, come to an end; to pass, pass by, elapse. Now somewhat archaic.

intransitive (for reflexive). To come to an end; to cease to exist or be in force; to expire, to die. (Now chiefly in Law.)

intransitive. Of a period of time, life, etc.: to run out, to come to an end. Obsolete.

passive. To be brought to an end or finished up; to be exhausted or spent; to come to an end.

Of a period of time or anything that has a finite duration: To come to an end, expire. Obsolete.

intransitive. To come to an end, give out, draw to a close. Obsolete.

to wear out, forth, of something which holds good for a limited time: To determine, expire. Obsolete.

intransitive for reflexive. Of storm, war, dissension: To come to an end, be allayed. Of persons: To cease from violence. Obsolete.

intransitive. Of a period of time: to elapse, pass, come to an end. Also of a lease, contract, agreement, etc.: to reach the end of a period of…

intransitive. To come to an end, cease, conclude. Also: to result in or at; to turn into. Cf. terminate, v. 6.

To come to an end. Of an action, state, legal title, etc.: To cease, come to an end, die out, become extinct.

intransitive. To come to an end, reach the end; to cease, leave off. Also with off, up. Also, to end in (something), to end by (doing something).

intransitive. Of things: To come to a close or end; to close, end, finish, terminate.

transitive and intransitive. To close up, in various senses.

intransitive. Of a process, event, period, etc.: to come to an end; to end, cease; to expire; to conclude, close (with something).

intransitive. Of a period of time, state of things, a discourse, an action: To come to an end. archaic.

intransitive and transitive. To close, conclude, terminate: = wind up at sense 20b (b), (d). Obsolete. rare.

Of an immaterial thing: To have its limit of operation at a specified point. Of a series: To come to an end.

intransitive. Of a contract, esp. a lease: to expire; to become available for renewal.

intransitive. To come to an end, terminate.

to blaze out (trans.): to cause to flare away, to exhaust in a blaze of passion or excess (archaic); (intransitive) to go out with a flare, subside…

intransitive. To come to an end. poetic. Obsolete.

intransitive. To develop; to conclude; to become worn out or extremely weak, to give out.