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unending

[en-ding] Origin

end·ing

[en-ding]
noun
1.
a bringing or coming to an end; termination; close: Putting away the Christmas ornaments marked the ending of the season.
2.
the final or concluding part; conclusion: a story with a happy ending.
3.
death; destruction.
4.
Grammar. a morpheme, especially an inflection, at the end of a word, as -s in cuts.
5.
(not in technical use) any final word part, as the -ow of widow.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English endyng, Old English endung. See end1, -ing1

un·end·ing, adjective
un·end·ing·ly, adverb
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Unending is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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unending (ʌnˈɛndɪŋ)
 
adj
having or seeming to have no end; interminable

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ending
O.E. endunge (see end).
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