terminate

terminate is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
2. transitive verb. To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.
3. transitive verb. Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.
4. intransitive verb. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.
5. intransitive verb. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.
6. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: end

7. verb. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

   "The boss fired his secretary today"

   "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

   Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, sack

8. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: cease, end, finish, stop

9. verb. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of

   "This sad scene ended the movie"

   Synonyms: end

Synonyms

end, can, dismiss, displace, fire, sack, cease, finish, stop

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in terminate:

antimeter, attermine, interteam, tetramine

Common word forms

terminated, terminates, terminating

Words from these letters

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