untimely end
collocation in Englishmeaningsofuntimelyandend
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untimely
adjective
uk/ʌnˈtaɪm.li/us/ʌnˈtaɪm.li/
Something bad that is untimely happens unexpectedly early or at a time that is ...
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end
noun
uk/end/us/end/
the part of a place or thing that is furthest away from ...
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(Definition ofuntimelyandendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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By contrast death in youth is a traumatic anduntimelyend.
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In six of the cells the mite colonies came to anuntimelyendat an early stage, principally on account of the profuse development of moulds.
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Nearly every winner of £75,000 meets with anuntimelyendor gets into trouble.
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There was brought to anuntimelyenda wonderful and brilliant career.
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After all, there is a very small percentage of the population who over-indulge, and come to anuntimelyend.
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Not a day passes but that one, two, three or four people meet anuntimelyendas a result of the campaign.
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Money was the trouble in my own case, which brought my university career to anuntimelyend.
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He came to an almost tragic anduntimelyend.
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Sometimes the child becomes particularly sickly and comes to anuntimelyend.
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Then, in the case of life insurance, those who do not die at the natural expiration of life, pay the dependents of those who come to anuntimelyend.
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After a severe psychotic attack and hospitalization at the age of 28, his career as a landscape painter came to anuntimelyend.
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Local residents have speculated that the fire started when a squirrel suffered anuntimelyendat the hands of an electrical transformer.
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Alec himself has to reconcile himself to his past crimes before his deathwish brings him, and his co-personalities, to anuntimelyend.
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He appears to have been motivated by the observation that the return of image veneration coincided with a period of untimely ends of emperors.
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Hudson's career was untimely ended by an injury to his pitching arm.
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