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(verb) end
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
(verb) can, dismiss, displace, send away, sack, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
The boss fired his secretary today; The company terminated 25% of its workers
(verb) cease, stop, finish, end
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
(verb) end
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
This sad scene ended the movie