terminate (
http://definr.com/terminate)
v 1: bring to an end; "She ended their friendship when she found
out that he had once been convicted of a crime" [syn:
end]
[ant:
begin]
2: have end in a certain location; either spatial or
metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary
bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights
of other" [syn:
stop]
3: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense:
"My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a
pianissimo" [syn:
end,
finish,
cease] [ant:
begin]
4: terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary
today" [syn:
fire,
give notice,
can,
dismiss, {give
the axe},
send away,
sack,
force out] [ant:
hire]
5: bring to a conclusion or cause to come to an end; "We
terminated our relation with the company"; "It is unclear
whether the bombing of Hiroshima ended the war"; "Cease
doing what you are doing!" [syn:
end,
cease] [ant:
begin]