end up
— phrasal verb with end uk/end/us/end/verb [ I or T ]
B1 to finally be in a particular place or situation:
They're travelling across Europe by train and are planning to end up in Moscow.
Much of this meat will probably end up as dog food.
[ L ] She'll end up penniless if she continues to spend like that.
[ + -ing verb ] After working her way around the world, she ended up teaching English as a foreign language.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coming to an end
- come off
- come off sth
- come out
- come to a full stop idiom
- come to a head idiom
- come to sth
- come to the end of the road idiom
- dry up
- fizzle
- head
- land
- land up
- lapse
- let
- let up
- peter
- peter out
- road
- run
- wind up
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