terminate

Meanings

Verb

• To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state; to die.
• To set or be a limit or boundary to.
• To kill someone or something.
• To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
• Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.

Adjective

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

Related

Similar words

• discontinue, stop, break off

Opposite words

• continue

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin terminātus, past participle of terminō, from terminus; see term, terminus. termine.