terminate
/ˈtɝmɪneɪ̯t/ verb C1- To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state. · to terminate a process before its completion· to terminate an effort, or a controversy
- To conclude.
- To set or be a limit or boundary to. · to terminate a surface by a line
- To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule. · We'll rough them all in before we start terminating any of them.
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- To kill someone or something. · The enemy must be terminated by any means possible.
- To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus. · This train terminates at the next station.
He/she/it terminates · Past terminated · Past participle terminated · -ing form terminating
Verb forms
- Base form
- terminate
- He/she/it
- terminates
- Past
- terminated
- Past participle
- terminated
- -ing form
- terminating
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I might have rebelled against these exasperating solos had it not been that he usually terminated them by playing in quick succession a whole series of my favourite airs as a slight compensation for the trial upon my patience.
This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate.
It seemed, however, to Edmond, who was hidden from his comrades by the inequalities of the ground, that at sixty paces from the harbor the marks ceased; nor did they terminate at any grotto.
Then Dantès rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated.
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