From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
terminate
v 1: bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when
she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime";
"The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful
period after WW I" [syn: end, terminate] [ant: begin,
commence, get, get down, lead off, set about,
set out, start, start out]
2: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense;
either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in
a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon
the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The
symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish,
terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start]
3: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad
scene ended the movie" [syn: end, terminate]
4: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]