Synonyms for terminate

Verb

1. end, terminate, change, alter, modify

usage: 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 WWI"

2. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

usage: 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"

3. end, terminate, be

usage: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"

4. fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate, remove

usage: terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"