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terminateverb to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping pointwe need to terminate the discussion for this evening, but we'll resume tomorrow morning close, close out, complete, conclude, end, finish, round (off or out), wind up, wrap up climax, crownconsummate, perfecthalt, stop, suspend put paid to(chiefly British), ring down the curtain (on) begin, commence, inaugurate, open, start to come to an endthis class will terminate with the arrival of Memorial Day break off, break up, cease, close, conclude, dead-end, determine, die, discontinue, elapse, end, expire, finish, go, halt, lapse, leave off, let up, pass, quit, stop, wind up, wink (out) desist (from), lay off (of), refrain (from)give over(British), knock off, pack (up or in)break down, conk (out), cut out, stallpause, stay, suspendabate, peter (out), wind down bite the dust continue, hang on, persist draw out, extend, prolong, protract to mark the limits ofterminated the area set aside for the runners to change their clothes with a series of folding screens bound, circumscribe, define, delimit, demarcate, demark, limit, mark (off) control, determine, governdelineate, describe to put to death deliberatelythe operative's covert mission was to terminate the leader of the opposition assassinate, bump off, croak(slang), dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice(slang), knock off, liquidate, murder, neutralize, off(slang), put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, whack(slang) blow away, shoot, shoot downblot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zapbutcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughterannihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out do away with animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive to let go from office, service, or employmenthe was terminated for constantly coming in to work late ax(or axe), bounce, can, cashier, discharge, dismiss, fire, muster out, pink-slip, release, remove, retire, sack, turn off downsize, excess, furlough, lay off, trimboot (out), chuck (out), drum (out), kick out, throw out, unseatseparate send packing, show (someone) the door employ, engage, hire, retain, sign (up or on), take on keepreemploy, rehirecontract, subcontractrecruit close, end, conclude, finish, complete, terminate mean to bring or come to a stopping point or limit.close usually implies that something has been in some way open as well as unfinished.close a debate end conveys a strong sense of finality.ended his life conclude may imply a formal closing (as of a meeting).the service concluded with a blessing finish may stress completion of a final step in a process.after it is painted, the house will be finished complete implies the removal of all deficiencies or a successful finishing of what has been undertaken.the resolving of this last issue completes the agreement terminate implies the setting of a limit in time or space.your employment terminates after three months in the 15th century |