terminate
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(verb) have end in a certain location; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" |
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Synonyms: stop |
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Related Words: discontinue |
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(verb) bring to a conclusion or cause to come to an end; "We terminated our relation with the company"; "It is unclear whether the bombing of Hiroshima ended the war"; "Cease doing what you are doing!" |
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Synonyms: cease, end |
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Related Words: alter, change, close out, conclude, halt |
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(verb) bring to an end; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime" |
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Synonyms: end |
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Related Words: abort, alter, ax, axe, break, break off, break up, change, close, closure, cloture, complete, crush out, culminate, decide, discontinue, dissolve, extinguish, finalize, finish, interrupt, kill, lift, nail down, phase out, press out, raise, resolve, settle, stamp out, stop, stub out |
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(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense: "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
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Synonyms: cease, end, finish |
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Related Words: adjourn, break, break up, climax, close, come out, culminate, cut out, die hard, disappear, discontinue, end up, fetch up, finish up, go, go away, go out, land up, lapse, pass away, recess, run low, run short, turn out, vanish, wind up |
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(verb) terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today" |
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Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, sack, send away |
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Related Words: clean out, dismiss, drive out, drop, furlough, lay off, pension off, remove, retire, send away, send packing, squeeze out |
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