Word.ws English Dictionary

end in tears

end in tears verb: to end badly.

Verb

end in tears (third-person singular simple present ends in tears, present participle ending in tears, simple past and past participle ended in tears)

  1. (idiomatic) To end badly.

Forms of end in tears

third-person singular presentends in tears
present participleending in tears
past participleended in tears
pastended in tears

Questions about end in tears

What does end in tears mean?
End in tears means to end badly.
What part of speech is end in tears?
End in tears is a verb.
What is the past tense of end in tears?
The past tense of end in tears is ended in tears.

Words near end in tears in the dictionary

  1. end goals
  2. end grain
  3. end in
  4. end in itself
  5. end in smoke
  6. end in tears
  7. end it all
  8. end item
  9. end items
  10. end lap
  11. end laps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: end in tears (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “end in tears.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/end_in_tears. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.