terminate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
2. (transitive) To conclude.
3. (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
4. (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
5. (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
6. (euphemistic, transitive) To kill someone or something.
7. (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
8. (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
9. (intransitive) To issue or result.

Adj

1. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
2. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
3. Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

Synonyms

end

🔚

finish

cease

stop

🛑

conclude

close

come to an end

complete

accomodate

expire

discontinue

dismiss

quit

abrogate

dissolve

abate

discard

be over

wind up

fire

🔥

be finished

bring to an end

sack

kill

🔪🩸👤

halt

eliminate

end up

abort

cancel

determine

send away

abolish

prorogue

oust

over

quell

interrupt

go

give the sack

lift

finished

denounce

decide

cut

can

exit

force out

break up

culminate

accomplish

Translations

terminar

terminer

🔚

terminare

🔚

finire

acabar

beenden

terminar

finir

beëindigen

🔚

cesser

bitirmek

cessare

🛑

acabar

smettere

afmaken

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɝmɪneɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English terminaten (“to bring to an end; to adjudicate; to end, stop; to border, confine, contain”) from terminat(e) (“bounded”, also used as the past participle of terminaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin terminātus, perfect passive participle of terminō (“to set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from terminus (“a bound, limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see term, terminus. Doublet of termine, cognate with French terminer.

Sentences

A few services each day originate and terminate at Upper Ferntree Gully .