Entry Word: conclude

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point <a brief reminder of tonightʼs game concluded the announcements> — see close 3
2 to come to an end <the concert concluded late in the evening> — see cease 1
3 to bring about through discussion and compromise <concluded an economic agreement among the worldʼs leading industrial nations> — see negotiate 1
4 to come to a judgment after discussion or consideration <he concluded that it could wait until later> — see decide 1
5 to form an opinion through reasoning and information <concluded that only the murderer could possibly have known that information> — see infer 1