From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere, present active infinitive of conclūdō.

• IPA: /kən.ˈkluːd/

conclude (concludes, present participle concluding; simple past and past participle concluded)

1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.

   The story concluded with a moral.

2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
   • a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC ↗:

     I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.

3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

   to conclude a bargain

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iv]:

     if we conclude a peace

4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

   From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies:

     No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.

5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:

     But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

6. (often, passive) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.

   The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

   A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC ↗:

     If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.

7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the page):

     The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Romans 11:32 ↗:

     For God hath concluded all in unbelief.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Galatians 3:22 ↗:

     The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.

9. (logic) to deduce, to infer develop a causal relation

• (antonym(s) of “to end”): begin, initiate, start, commence

• conclusion
• conclusive
• disclude
• include
• occlude
• preclude

• French: conclure
• German: beenden, schließen, zu Ende führen, abschließen
• Italian: finire, concludere
• Portuguese: concluir
• Russian: заверша́ть
• Spanish: concluir

• German: entscheiden, beschließen
• Italian: concludere
• Portuguese: concluir
• Russian: заключа́ть
• Spanish: concluir

• German: schließen, folgern, schlussfolgern, konkludieren