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Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb terminate

4 senses of terminate

Sense 1
end, terminate -- (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")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 2
end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (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")

Sense 3
end, terminate -- (be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

Sense 4
displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate -- (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers")
       => remove -- (remove from a position or an office)

Antonyms of adj terminated

2 senses of terminated

Sense 1
complete, concluded, ended, over (predicate), all over, terminated -- (having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview")

INDIRECT (VIA finished) -> unfinished -- (not brought to an end or conclusion; "unfinished business"; "the building is still unfinished")

Sense 2
terminated -- ((of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end)

INDIRECT (VIA expired) -> unexpired -- (not having come to an end or been terminated by passage of time; "elected to fill the senator's unexpired term"; "an unexpired driver's license")

Similarity of adj terminated

2 senses of terminated

Sense 1
complete, concluded, ended, over (predicate), all over, terminated -- (having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview")
       => finished (vs. unfinished) -- (ended or brought to an end; "are you finished?"; "gave me the finished manuscript")

Sense 2
terminated -- ((of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end)
       => expired (vs. unexpired) -- (having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license")


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