END UP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finally be or do something

Example:

he wound up being unemployed and living at home again

Synonyms:

end up; fetch up; finish; finish up; land up; wind up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "end up" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s VERB-ing

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Context examples:

Such accumulation can present as gallstones or kidney stones, become bone spurs, or even end up in other parts of the body.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

So how did they end up together - but apart?

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

Planet Nine's orbital influence would explain why these bodies from the distant Kuiper Belt end up "polluting" the inner Kuiper Belt.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)

Many patients who have LASIK end up with 20/20 vision.

(Laser Eye Surgery, NIH)

"The research provides insights into how cacao trees defend themselves against pathogens — and may help more cacao end up in our chocolate instead of destroyed by fungal disease."

(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)

If ocean acidification causes larvae to be attracted to irrelevant sounds, they could end up in the wrong habitat or in inhospitable places.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

Be sure to back up computer programs, insert the most up-to-date software in your operating system, and protect the privacy of clients and customers, lest you end up dealing with a hacker. (Uranus, a leader at this new moon, rules computers and software and could easily create mayhem.)

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)