conclude
Bring to close
Conclude means to bring something to an end or to reach a final point: The meeting concluded at noon, She concluded her speech with a call to action.
It also means to arrive at a judgment or decision through reasoning: The jury concluded that he was guilty, What can we conclude from these findings?
To conclude an agreement is to finalize it formally.
In formal writing, "in conclusion" signals a summary or final remarks.
Bring to completion
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- wrap upComplete and conclude
- finalizeSettle decisively
- terminateBring to an end
cease · stop · culminate · wind up · adjourn · discontinue · halt · round off
Reach final terms
- resolveFirmness of purpose
- determineEstablish through investigation
- agreeHold the same view
- come to termsAccept or reach agreement
reach agreement · finalize · establish · fix · seal · clinch · confirm · ratify
Brief review of events
- recapitulateSummarize main points again
- sum upState concisely
- synthesizeCombine into unified whole
- reviewCritical written assessment
outline · digest · distill · encapsulate · condense · abstract · synopsize · wrap up
finish
Bring to completion
terminate · cease · stop · culminate · wind up · adjourn · discontinue · halt · round off · cap off
settle
Reach final terms
reach agreement · come to terms · finalize · establish · fix · seal · clinch · confirm · ratify · broker
recap
Brief review of events
- recapitulateSummarize main points again
- sum upState concisely
- synthesizeCombine into unified whole
review · outline · digest · distill · encapsulate · condense · abstract · synopsize · wrap up · round up
state
Condition or mode
affirm · proclaim · declare · express · remark · sum up · observe · maintain
deduce
Reach by reasoning
- determineEstablish through investigation
- gatherBring or come together
- surmiseGuess from incomplete information
reason · figure · extrapolate · derive · judge · assume · presume · reckon · suppose · glean
- finalizationfinalize, clinch, seal, settle, confirm
- settle meaningsagree, compromise, reconcile, negotiate, decide
- analysisanalyze, analysis, evaluate, data analysis, examine
- endingsending, the end, finish, final, end
- finishfinish, complete, end, finalize, wrap up
- presentationpresent, deliver, introduce, demonstrate, display
concludebegin
To start something
start · commence · initiate · inaugurate · open
- in conclusionSignals the ending
- foregone conclusionResult assumed beforehand
- conclusive evidenceProof that ends debate
- logical conclusion
- to concludeBring to an end
- wrong conclusionErroneous inference from evidence
conclusion, concluded, concluding, conclusive, concludes, unconcluded