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v. To bring to an end or halt: "His action terminated the most hopeful period of reform in Prussian history” ( Gordon A. Craig).

v. To occur at or form the end of; conclude or finish: a display of fireworks that terminated the festivities.

v. To discontinue the employment of; dismiss: a company that terminated 300 workers.

verb-intransitive. To come to an end: The oil pipeline terminates at a shipping port. Negotiations terminated yesterday. See Synonyms at complete.

verb-intransitive. To have as an end or result: "The Peloponnesian war ... terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth” ( Alexander Hamilton).

v. To finish or end.

v. To kill.

v. To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire or lay off.

adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.

adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

adj. Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

v. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit.

v. To put an end to; to make to cease.

v. Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.

verb-intransitive. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease.

verb-intransitive. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.

To bound; limit; form the extreme outline of; set a boundary or limit to; define.

To end; put an end to.

To complete; put the closing or finishing touch to; perfect.

Synonyms To close, conclude.

To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; stop short; end.

To cease; come to an end in time; end.

Capable of coming to an end; limited; bounded: as, a terminate decimal. A terminate number is an integer, a mixed number, or a vulgar fraction. See interminate.

v. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

v. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

v. bring to an end or halt

"Brooks found the use of the word terminate very unsettling."

terminated    terminates    terminating   

abort   

termination    terminus    terminator    terminable   

culminate    go away    adjourn    vanish    breakup    run low    close    break    come out    lapse   

perfect    end    cease    close    kill   

determinate    exterminate    germinate