Definition of terminate - WordReference.com Dictionary

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terminate
A	verb
	1	end, terminate
			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"
		Category Tree: change; alter; modify ╚end, terminate ╚culminate ╚abort ╚finish ╚close out
	2	fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
			terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
		Category Tree: remove ╚fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate ╚dismiss; send packing; send away; drop ╚squeeze out ╚furlough; lay off ╚clean out ╚pension off ╚retire
	3	end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
			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 end

	4	end, terminate
			be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
		Category Tree: be ╚end, terminate ╚close

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