terminate
英['tɜːmɪneɪt]
美['tɝmɪnet]
- vt. 使终止；使结束；解雇
- vi. 结束，终止；结果
- adj. 结束的
英英释意
- 1. 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 WWI"
- 2. 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"
- 3. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;
- "This sad scene ended the movie"
- 4. terminate the employment of;
- "The boss fired his secretary today"
- "The company terminated 25% of its workers"