terminate

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  1. transitive verb To bring to an end or halt: "His action terminated the most hopeful period of reform in Prussian history” (Gordon A. Craig).
  2. transitive verb To occur at or form the end of; conclude or finish: a display of fireworks that terminated the festivities.
  3. transitive verb To discontinue the employment of; dismiss: a company that terminated 300 workers.
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  • Brooks found the use of the word terminate very unsettling. —  ActOfTreason
  • We have now reached the point where the concealed foundations of Hawthorne's life terminate, and the final structure begins to appear above the surface, like the topmost portion of a coral island slowly rising from the depths of a solitary ocean. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • The plural might be uniformly made in d , following a vowel, and if a word terminate in a consonant, then in ad . —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • This contest will not soon terminate, and its result no one can foresee. —  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Therefore it is fitting that our date to terminate, at the very least; their plan, is also the year 2000. —  Daily Kos
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terminate:   terminating ·  terminated ·  terminates
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin termināre, termināt-, from terminus, end.

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  1. from Latin terminatus, past participle of terminare, set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate, from terminus; a bound, limit, end: see term, terminus. Cf. termine.
  2. from Latin terminatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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