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}]