end out

English

Etymology

Perhaps by confusion of end up with start out, pan out, etc.

Verb

end out (third-person singular simple present ends out, present participle ending out, simple past and past participle ended out)

(uncommon) Synonym of end up
1. (transitive) To bring to a conclusion; to finish up.
  - 2005, Summerisle, Times of Hate, Times of Joy, Lost Highway:
    Note: in a previous post I ended out my exposition of American tropicalia with the justification that, if haiti can show us something about democracy than Brazil can show us something too.
  - 2006, Diana DeLuca, Extraordinary Things, page 191:
    The Gunnery Leader ended out the briefing.
  - 2022, Stephanie Mossi, Out of the Darkness:
    We ended out his leave time by flying back to South Carolina just before New Year's Eve.
2. (copulative) To come to as a final condition or situation;
  - 2011, Marie Andrews, The Power of Determination, page 49:
    In total it ended out that I was out of a job for 18 months.
  - 2012, Ann Louise Gilligan, Dr. Katherine Zappone, Our Lives Out Loud: In Pursuit of Justice and Equality:
    We were a group of women who met as strangers and ended out as friends.
  - 2022, Kathy S. Thompson, The Surgery Experience:
    The stress and pulling from the rigors of this kind of operation also ends out affecting the front rib area.
  - 2023, William A. Cantoni, A Man of Many Faces:
    Ferris had some power with him, and the judge ended out making the decision to allow Ferris Ashley to stay there and made some pretty easy terms regarding the damage to the building.
(informal, of a street, road or path) To terminate in a particular location.
- 2017, Jack Mackenzie, Time Like Broken Glass, page 170:
  The alley ended out a street that was unfamiliar to him.
The street ended out in a rough neighborhood.