| Meaning | Bring to an end or halt. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Model | They won't terminate the story |
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| Example | "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
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| Synonym | end |
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| Cause to | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense |
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| Narrower | abort | terminate before completion |
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| ax, axe | terminate |
| break, break off, discontinue, stop | prevent completion |
| close | complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement |
| close | Finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) |
| close out | terminate |
| closure, cloture | terminate debate by calling for a vote |
| complete, finish | Come or bring to a finish or an end / end |
| conclude | Bring to a close |
| culminate | Bring to a head or to the highest point |
| decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate | Bring to an end |
| dissolve, break up | Come to an end |
| dissolve, break up | Bring the association / association / association of to an end or cause to break up |
| finalize, finalise, settle, nail down | make final |
| finish | Cause to finish a relationship / relationship with somebody |
| interrupt, break | terminate |
| lift, raise | put an end to |
| phase out | terminate gradually |
| stamp out, kill | end or extinguish by forceful means |
| stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out | Extinguish by crushing |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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| Opposite | begin, lead off, start, commence | set in motion, cause to start |
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| get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence | Take the first ... / first step or steps in carrying out an action |
| Spanish | acabar, concluir, finalizar, rescindir, terminar |
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| Catalan | acabar, finalitzar, rescindir, terminar |
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| Adjectives | terminative | coming to an end |
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| Nouns | termination | the act of ending something |
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