v. destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

v. make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal"

v. finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"

v. bring together all the elements or parts of; "Management closed ranks"

v. put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"

v. make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

v. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"

v. bring to a close; "The committee concluded the meeting"

v. make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

v. make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"

v. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"

v. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"

v. open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"

v. get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"

v. display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer