mettre fin — meaning in English

English meaning

• cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
• kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.

Senses

mettre fin is used for these senses in English:

• break up (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
• cancel (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• kill (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• time out (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.

cancel — full definition

1. verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
2. verb To make something officially invalid.
3. verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
4. verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.

kill — full definition

1. verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
2. verb To stop, switch off, or put an end to something completely.
3. verb To cause severe pain, exhaustion, or distress — often used informally and not literally.
4. noun An act of killing, or the animal or target that has been killed.

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