1.
If someone or something ends up somewhere, they eventually arrive there, usually by accident.
She fled with her children, moving from neighbour to neighbour and ending up in a friend’s cellar.
= finish up, wind up
PHRASAL VERB: V P prep/adv
2.
If you ~ doing something or ~ in a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to.
If you don’t know what you want, you might ~ getting something you don’t want...
Every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mood...
She could have ended up a millionairess.
= finish up
PHRASAL VERB: V P -ing, V P prep/adv, V P n