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(v.) = put + an end to, bring + an end to, bring to + an end

Ex. The abolition of the central and of the district libraries in 1803 put an end to a project which had met too many problems.

Ex. He became famous as the leader of illegal metalworkers' strikes that helped bring an end to the military dictatorship in the mid-1970s.

Ex. Serial swindler Kenneth Broad was this afternoon jailed for 15 months bringing to an end a playboy lifestyle lived at other people's expense.

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(v.) = put + an end to, bring + an end to, bring to + an end

Ex: The abolition of the central and of the district libraries in 1803 put an end to a project which had met too many problems.

Ex: He became famous as the leader of illegal metalworkers' strikes that helped bring an end to the military dictatorship in the mid-1970s.

Ex: Serial swindler Kenneth Broad was this afternoon jailed for 15 months bringing to an end a playboy lifestyle lived at other people's expense.