come to an end
Reach the finish
To come to an end is to finish, conclude, or cease existing.
Anything with duration can come to an end: a relationship, a meeting, a war, an era.
All good things must come to an end.
The phrase often carries a note of finality or inevitability—something has run its course.
- run outBecome completely depleted
- run its courseProceed until finished naturally
- ceaseTo discontinue activity
- elapseOf duration, to pass
- finishBring to completion
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