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Meaning of terminate

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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" [syn: {end}, {terminate}] [ant: {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" [syn: {end}, {stop}, {finish},
         {terminate}, {cease}] [ant: {begin}, {start}]
      3: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad
         scene ended the movie" [syn: {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" [syn: {displace}, {fire},
         {give notice}, {can}, {dismiss}, {give the axe}, {send away},
         {sack}, {force out}, {give the sack}, {terminate}] [ant:
         {employ}, {engage}, {hire}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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