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Terminate

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Manner of action 36

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

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Adjourn 76% connected

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of…

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Adjudicate 76% connected

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

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Ax 76% connected

Alt. of Axe

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Axe 76% connected

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wield…

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Cease 76% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

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Climax 76% connected

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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Close 76% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Closure 76% connected

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

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Cloture 76% connected

See Closure, 5.

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Complete 76% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Conclude 76% connected

To shut up; to inclose.

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Culminate 76% connected

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

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Decide 76% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Disappear 76% connected

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the appr…

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Discontinue 76% connected

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

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Dismiss 76% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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Dissolve 76% connected

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to term…

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Fail 76% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Furlough 76% connected

Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Interrupt 76% connected

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Lapse 76% connected

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Quit 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Recess 76% connected

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Retire 76% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Stop 76% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Vanish 76% connected

To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a shi…

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Broader term 6

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Derivationally related 6

Conclusion 74% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Conclusion 74% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Terminative 74% connected

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

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Terminative 74% connected

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

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Terminus 74% connected

Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

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Terminus 74% connected

Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

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Causes 4

Cease 72% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

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End 72% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Finish 72% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Stop 72% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Synonym 9

Can 92% connected

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

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Cease 92% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dismiss 92% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Displace 92% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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End 92% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Finish 92% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Fire 92% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Sack 92% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Stop 92% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Near synonym 1

End 88% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

general 70% interchangeable

Terminate overlaps with end, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Formal equivalent 1

End 86% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

contractual 44% interchangeable less formal softer

Terminate is formal and can imply deliberate or contractual ending.

End the agreement. / Terminate the agreement.
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