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terminate English

Meaning terminate meaning

What does terminate mean?
Definitions in simple English

terminate Verb

— If someone terminates something, they bring it to an end or get rid of it; they finish it. The boss decided to terminate the employee for bad work. The wife decided to terminate the marriage in divorce — If someone terminates someone, they kill them.

terminate

— verb (= end) 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 — verb (= end, stop) 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 — verb (= end) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of This sad scene ended the movie — verb (= fire) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position The boss fired his secretary today The company terminated 25% of its workers

Synonyms terminate synonyms

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terminate English » English

end finish cease stop conclude close complete come to an end accomodate expire discontinue dismiss quit dissolve abrogate discard abate wind up sack fire bring to an end be over be finished send away kill halt end up eliminate determine cancel abort abolish staunch sever settle resolve remove quell prorogue over oust lift interrupt go give the sack give the axe give notice force out finished exit

Topics terminate topics

What do people use terminate to talk about?
Person Life Die

Kill
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something
Person Life Birth

Miscarriage

Conjugation terminate conjugation

How do you conjugate terminate?

terminate · verb

Examples terminate examples

How do I use terminate in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Kazan terminate her alliance.
And with that outburst, I terminate for a refill.
Perhaps we should terminate it before it becomes completely ashes.
I don't know who you are, and I certainly have no interest in your investigators so I'm afraid that you will have to terminate this conversation.
Terminate.
This faculty meeting must terminate at once.
To terminate the bitterness of life, you may select from three exciting and surprising forms of death.
Shall I terminate him?
I'm afraid we must now terminate the audience.
WINTERS: Terminate.
Terminate the penal unit here.
Sandmen terminate runners.
Terminate her!
As soon as you find the cyborgs, you have the green light to terminate.
And with that outburst, I terminate for a refill. - Oh, no more ice.
Your orders are to terminate in good spirit the joke with the island.
I'll terminate the contract the day you get married.
If someone gets a call during the other's time, he or she will terminate the call as quickly as possible.
He mentioned his desire to terminate a tiresome idyll.
To terminate a pregnancy after 28 days is a criminal offence punishable in a court of law with seven years' jail.
This'll terminate your wish and bring you back to me, wherever I am.
To terminate the bitterness of life, you are entitled to select from three exciting and surprising forms of death, one of which awaits beyond each of the doors you see before you.
And when I have signed, you will terminate that agreement.
We have engagements. She cannot terminate our agreement.
If this House knew its duty, it would terminate and let a new Parliament be elected.
Then you're not going to terminate my services?
They will spend the five and a half years of their voyage frozen into a state of suspended animation which will terminate automatically as they enter the atmosphere of the new planet.
Hear! Hear! If this House knew its duty to the nation, it would terminate its sitting and let a new Parliament be elected.
When exactly does your contract terminate?
You might say we terminate together.
Terminate. -Would go on for hours.
When you find the colonel, infiltrate his team by-- whatever means available and terminate the colonel's command.
Terminate the colonel?

News and current affairs

As a measure of sincerity, he needs to order the immediate release of Ayman Nour and take steps to terminate the 24-year-long state of emergency, which effectively prevents political campaigning from taking place.
One lesson we have learned from both the Milosevic and Hussein trials is that one should not put men or women on trial in order to terminate their charismatic appeal.

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