concludes

Verb

conclude (third-person singular simple present 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.
   • I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...
3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
   • to conclude a bargain
4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
   • From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
   • But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
6. (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
   • The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

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