1. Bring to an end or halt
   "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I";
   - end
    
2. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
   "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed";
   - end, stop, finish, cease
    
3. Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
   "This sad scene terminated the movie";
   - end
    
4. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   "The company terminated 25% of its workers";
   - displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, sack, force out, give the sack [informal]

Derived forms: terminates, terminated, terminating

Type of: alter, be, change, exist, modify, remove

Encyclopedia: Terminate