terminateverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪt/us/ˈtɝː.mə.neɪt/formalto (cause something to) end or stop:
They terminated my contract in October.
This train will terminate at the next stop - passengers who wish to continue should change trains.
specialized medical to end a pregnancy intentionally, usually by a medical operation
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
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