end up
verb1
To bring to a conclusion.
- The band usually ends up their concerts with their biggest hit song.
2
To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.
- They ended up angry at each other.
- He ended up as an insurance agent.
3 more examples
- I was going for a stroll, and ended up lost.
- She gave her all, and ended up winning the contest.
- This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.1960 March 23, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Preston—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 201:
3
To lift or tilt, so as to set on end.
- to end up a hogshead
- Related terms
- start up