END UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does end up mean? 

• END UP (verb)
  The verb END UP has 1 sense:

1. finally be or do something

  Familiarity information: END UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• END UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finally be or do something

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

he wound up being unemployed and living at home again

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

 Context examples 

Depending on the predictions of climate change forecasts, this approach may also allow us to estimate where they might end up in the future.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

The results suggest that people who commonly resist acknowledging their darkest emotions, or judge them harshly, can end up feeling more psychologically stressed.

(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ubiquitylated membrane proteins, such as activated growth-factor receptors, are sorted into intraluminal vesicles and eventually end up in the lysosome lumen via multivesicular endosomes (MVEs).

(Endocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Prehypertension means you may end up with high blood pressure, unless you take steps to prevent it.

(High Blood Pressure, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Leucines occurring in heptad repeats end up on the same sides of the helixes and are adjacent to each other in the stem of the Y (the "zipper" region).

(Leucine Zipper, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

About half of people with the most common type of PKD end up with kidney failure.

(Kidney Cysts, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

By the team's calculations, about 1 out of every 1,000 water molecules generated on the surface of Ceres will end up in a cold trap during a year on Ceres (1,682 days).

(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)

The U.N. estimates that about 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans every year.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

Where would all that dust—in this case, from Kalahari sands—end up?

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

These chemicals are used in much larger quantities at an everyday level, so you end up with high residual levels in the wider environment, which can induce multi-drug resistance.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)