TERMINATE
Definition:
- [verb] bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI"
Synonyms: end
- [verb] have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
Synonyms: end, stop, finish, cease
- [verb] be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
Synonyms: end
- [verb] terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
Synonyms: fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack
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Related Words:
- close out
- finish
- abort
- culminate
- lift, raise
- ax, axe
- stamp out, kill
- dissolve, break up
- dissolve, break up
- break, break off, discontinue, stop
- interrupt, break
- stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out
- finalize, finalise, settle, nail down
- complete, finish
- closure, cloture
- decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate
- conclude
- close
- phase out
- close
- pass away
- lapse
- cut out
- go out
- adjourn, recess, break up
- vanish, disappear
- culminate, climax
- run out
- run low, run short, go
- vanish, disappear, go away
- conclude, close
- turn out, come out
- discontinue
- break
- close
- retire
- pension off
- clean out
- furlough, lay off
- squeeze out
- dismiss, send packing, send away, drop
