Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to terminate
Participle: terminated
Gerund: terminating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | terminate |
| you | terminate |
| he;she;it | terminates |
| we | terminate |
| you | terminate |
| they | terminate |
Perfect
| I | have terminated |
| you | have terminated |
| he;she;it | has terminated |
| we | have terminated |
| you | have terminated |
| they | have terminated |
Past
| I | terminated |
| you | terminated |
| he;she;it | terminated |
| we | terminated |
| you | terminated |
| they | terminated |
Pluperfect
| I | had terminated |
| you | had terminated |
| he;she;it | had terminated |
| we | had terminated |
| you | had terminated |
| they | had terminated |
Future
| I | will terminate |
| you | will terminate |
| he;she;it | will terminate |
| we | will terminate |
| you | will terminate |
| they | will terminate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have terminated |
| you | will have terminated |
| he;she;it | will have terminated |
| we | will have terminated |
| you | will have terminated |
| they | will have terminated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | terminate |
| you | terminate |
| he;she;it | terminate |
| we | terminate |
| you | terminate |
| they | terminate |
Perfect
| I | have terminated |
| you | have terminated |
| he;she;it | have terminated |
| we | have terminated |
| you | have terminated |
| they | have terminated |
Imperfect
| I | terminated |
| you | terminated |
| he;she;it | terminated |
| we | terminated |
| you | terminated |
| they | terminated |
Pluperfect
| I | had terminated |
| you | had terminated |
| he;she;it | had terminated |
| we | had terminated |
| you | had terminated |
| they | had terminated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would terminate |
| you | would terminate |
| he;she;it | would terminate |
| we | would terminate |
| you | would terminate |
| they | would terminate |
Perfect
| I | would have terminated |
| you | would have terminated |
| he;she;it | would have terminated |
| we | would have terminated |
| you | would have terminated |
| they | would have terminated |
Imperative
| you | terminate |
| we | Let's terminate |
| you | terminate |
Verbs conjugated like 'terminate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'terminate'
germinate,
verminate,
deaminate,
deiminate,
determinate,
egerminate,
exterminate,
geminate,
interminate,
seminate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- bring down or reduce
- abate, contract, cut short, decrease, diminish, lower, moderate, remit, remove, slacken, suppress
- to kill
- cack, duppy, liquidate, take, kill
- terminate the employment of
- cards, fire, give the boot, give the elbow, heave-ho|give the old heave-ho, let go, redundant, sack, lay off, throw out, unhire
- to end the employment contract
- lay off
- to put to death; to extinguish life.
- annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
- to finish (something)
- conclude, consummate, discontinue, do, fullcome, round off, stay, stop, end
- to cease to proceed or act
- absist, belay, blin, break off, cease, cess, cheese it, come to an end, desist, discontinue, forbear, halt, have done with, hold, leave off, let up, rest, stanch, staunch, stay, stop, surcease
- to remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material
- blue-pencil, cancel, clear, cross out, eliminate, erase, exclude, expunge, obliterate, remove, rub out, score, scrap, scratch, scrub, squelch, strike, strike out, delete
- finish
- complete, conclude, end, close, eventuate, issue, prove, result
- limit
- confine, restrict, tether, bound
- abolish
- eliminate, end, stop, cancel
Antonyms
- finish
- start, begin, commence, originate
- abolish
- enact, establish, institute, legalize
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English terminaten (“to bring to an end; to adjudicate; to end, stop; to border, confine, contain”) from terminat(e) (“bounded”, also used as the past participle of terminaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin terminātus, perfect passive participle of terminō (“to set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from terminus (“a bound, limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see term, terminus. Doublet of termine, cognate with French terminer. See: French '
terminer'.
Sample Sentences
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I walk to the front window, and look across the road upon a long, straggling row of houses, one story high, terminating, nearly opposite, but a little to the left, in a melancholy piece of waste ground with frowzy grass, which looks like a small piece of country that has taken to drinking, and has quite lost itself. [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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This singular kind of coaching terminates at Fredericksburgh, whence there is a railway to Richmond. The tract of country through which it takes its course was once productive; but the soil has been exhausted by the system of employing a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I 'm gonna forward you an email from our lawyers terminating your contract
(Mile End Kicks)