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English Dictionary: terminate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terminate
v
  1. 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 WW I"
    Synonym(s): end, terminate
    Antonym(s): begin, commence, get, get down, lead off, set about, set out, start, start out
  2. 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"
    Synonym(s): end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
    Antonym(s): begin, start
  3. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
    Synonym(s): end, terminate
  4. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
    Synonym(s): displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
    Antonym(s): employ, engage, hire
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Terminate \Ter"mi*nate\, v. i.
      1. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to
            stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone
            terminates at the tropics.
  
      2. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.
  
                     The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy,
                     terminate on zhis side heaven.            --South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Terminate \Ter"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Terminated}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Terminating}.] [L. terminatus, p. p. of
      terminare. See {Term}.]
      1. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or
            side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by
            a line.
  
      2. To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an
            effort, or a controversy.
  
      3. Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to
            completion; to perfect.
  
                     During this interval of calm and prosperity, he
                     [Michael Angelo] terminated two figures of slaves,
                     destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of
                     art.                                                   --J. S.
                                                                              Harford.
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