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 | Cordialement, ... [à la fin d'une lettre, d'un e-mail] | Regards, ... [at the end of a letter, an e-mail] |  |
Verbs |
 | aboucher qc. [tube, tuyau] | to butt sth. [place end-to-end] |  |
 | congédier qn. | to dismiss sb. [e.g. end a discussion / interview; sack from employment] |  |
 | tirer à sa fin | to dwindle [draw to an end] |  |
 | s'évaser | to flare [widen at one end] |  |
 | larguer qn. [fam.] | to jilt sb. [reject; end engagement to marry] |  |
 | rompre avec qn. | to jilt sb. [reject; end engagement to marry] |  |
 | faire taire qc. | to squelch sth. [silence, put an end to] |  |
Nouns |
 | meub. chevet {m} [extrémité de lit] | headboard [raised part at end of bed] |  |
 | dr. congé {m} [fin de contrat] | notice [to end a contract] |  |
 | issue {f} [résultat] | outcome [end result] |  |
 | complément {m} [à la fin d'un livre] | postscript [at the end of a book] |  |
2 Words: Others |
 | bien affectueusement {adv} | yours affectionately [to end a letter] |  |
2 Words: Verbs |
 | rompre | to break up [end a relationship] |  |
 | être à la dérive [projets] | to come unglued [coll.] [idiom] [plans or an enterprise, end in failure] |  |
 | comm. journ. saborder qc. [entreprise, journal] | to wind sth. up [bring to an end] |  |
3 Words: Others |
 | bout à bout {adv} | end to end |  |
3 Words: Verbs |
 | en être fini pour qn./qc. | to be curtains for sb./sth. [coll.] [idiom] [death, disastrous end] |  |
 | casser avec qn. [fam.] [rompre une relation amoureuse] | to break off with sb. [end a love affair] |  |
 | rompre avec qn. | to break up with sb. [to end a relationship] |  |
3 Words: Nouns |
 | hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Austerlitz [1805] | Battle of Austerlitz [1805] [also: Battle of the Three Emperors] [Napoleon defeated the larger combined Russian/Austrian Armies, bringing the War of the 3rd Coalition to an end] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Castillon [1453] | Battle of Castillon [decisive French victory in 1453 against England marked the end of the 100 Years' War. Considered the first major battle won through the extensive use of field artillery] |  |
 | hist. mil. bataille {f} de Malakoff [1855] | Battle of Malakoff [1855] [French victory against the Russian forces resulted in the fall of Sevastopol, and subsequent end to the Crimean War] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Stadtlohn [1623] | Battle of Stadtlohn [1623] [resounding Catholic victory marking end of 1st phase of 30 Years' War] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. bataille {m} de Vimeiro [1808] | Battle of Vimeiro [1808] [the British under General Wellesley defeated the French under General Junot, putting an end to the first French invasion of Portugal] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Waterloo [1815] [aussi : bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean ou Victoire de la Belle-Alliance] | Battle of Waterloo [1815] [Napoleon's French army was decisively defeated by the combined Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies, marking the final end of the Napoleonic Wars] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. chute {f} de Constantinople [1453] [Aussi : prise de Constantinople] | Fall of Constantinople [in 1453, the Ottoman Empire captured the capital of the Byzantine Empire, marking its end, and effectively the end of the Roman Empire] |  |
 | géogr. hist. mil. siège {m} de Saint-Jean-d'Acre [1291] | siege of Acre [1291] [also: fall of Acre] [capture of the city marked the end of further crusades to the Levant] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Brétigny [1360] [traité de Calais] | Treaty of Brétigny [Treaty signed in 1360 between King Edward III of England and King John II of France, marking the end of the first phase of the 100 Years' War] |  |
4 Words: Others |
 | de bout en bout {adv} | from end to end |  |
5+ Words: Others |
 | Pour en finir ... | To make a long story short ... [idiom] [in the end] |  |
5+ Words: Nouns |
 | hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1856] | Treaty of Paris of 1856 [to end the Crimean War between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, the 2nd French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia] |  |