terminate

  1. Verb.  (transitive, or) To finish or end.
  2. Verb.  (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
  3. Verb.  (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire or lay off.
  4. Adjective.  Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
  5. Adjective.  Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
  6. Adjective.  (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

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