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| VERB | 1 | terminate, end | Bring to an end or halt |
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| 2 | terminate, end, stop, finish, cease | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense | |
| 3 | terminate, end | Be the end of | |
| 4 | terminate, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack | Terminate the employment of |
| Sounds | ter'mahney.t |
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| Rhymes | abate, abbreviate, abdicate, and 537 more rhymes in eyt... |
| Meaning | Bring to an end or halt. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Model | They won't terminate the story |
| Examples | "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| Synonyms | end |
| Contrary | get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence; begin, lead off, start, commence |
| Cause to | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Narrower | 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 |
| Adjectives | terminative; terminative |
| Nouns | termination |
| Meaning | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense. Either spatial or metaphorical. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Examples | "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed" |
| Synonyms | end, stop, finish, cease |
| Contrary | begin, start |
| Caused by | end, terminate |
| Narrower | 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 |
| Adjectives | terminative; terminative |
| Nouns | terminus |
| Meaning | Be the end of. Be the last or concluding part of. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | end |
| Broader | be |
| Narrower | close |
| Adjectives | terminative; terminative |
| Nouns | terminus |
| Meaning | Terminate the employment of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Examples | "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| Synonyms | fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack |
| Contrary | hire, engage, employ |
| Broader | remove |
| Narrower | retire; pension off; clean out; furlough, lay off; squeeze out; dismiss, send packing, send away, drop |
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