end up

end up
1) PHRASAL VERB If someone or something ends up somewhere, they eventually arrive there, usually by accident.

[V P prep/adv] The result was that the engine ended up at the bottom of the canal...

[V P prep/adv] She fled with her children, moving from neighbour to neighbour and ending up in a friend's cellar.

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2) PHRASAL VERB If you end up doing something or end up in a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to.

[V P -ing] If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want...

[V P prep/adv] Every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mood...

[V P n] She could have ended up a millionairess.

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