• IPA: /kən.ˈkluːd/

conclude (concludes, present participle concluding; 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.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     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, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [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.

   • No man can 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. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.

   The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

   A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

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

7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.

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

8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Romans 11:32 ↗:

     For God hath concluded all in unbelief.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Galatians 3:22 ↗:

     The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.

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

• (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