Dictionary entry details
• TERMINATE (verb)
Meaning:
Bring to an end or halt
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
terminate; end
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "terminate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Cause:
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "terminate"):
close out (terminate)
finalise; finalize; nail down; settle (make final; put the last touches on; put into final form)
complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)
closure; cloture (terminate debate by calling for a vote)
adjudicate; decide; resolve; settle (bring to an end; settle conclusively)
conclude (bring to a close)
close (complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement)
phase out (terminate gradually)
close (finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.))
crush out; extinguish; press out; stub out (extinguish by crushing)
break; interrupt (terminate)
break; break off; discontinue; stop (prevent completion)
finish (cause to finish a relationship with somebody)
abort (terminate before completion)
culminate (bring to a head or to the highest point)
lift; raise (put an end to)
ax; axe (terminate)
kill; stamp out (end or extinguish by forceful means)
break up; dissolve (come to an end)
break up; dissolve (bring the association of to an end or cause to break up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They won't terminate the story
Meaning:
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
end; cease; terminate; finish; stop
Context examples:
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
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "terminate"):
go; run low; run short (to be spent or finished)
disappear; go away; vanish (become invisible or unnoticeable)
close; conclude (come to a close)
come out; turn out (result or end)
discontinue (come or be at an end)
break (come to an end)
run out (become used up; be exhausted)
climax; culminate (end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage)
disappear; vanish (cease to exist)
adjourn; break up; recess (close at the end of a session)
go out (become extinguished)
cut out (cease operating)
lapse (end, at least for a long time)
pass away (go out of existence)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
end; terminate
Context example:
This sad scene ended the movie
Hypernyms (to "terminate" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "terminate"):
close (cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Terminate the employment of
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
give the sack; give the axe; give notice; send away; sack; force out; can; fire; dismiss; terminate
Context examples:
The boss fired his secretary today / The company terminated 25% of its workers
Hypernyms (to "terminate" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "terminate"):
dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)
squeeze out (force out)
furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)
clean out (force out)
pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)
retire (make (someone) retire)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
