verb (v)

• bring to an end or halt(verb.change)

  Example:
  The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I.
  

  Synonym:
  end
  Antonym:
  begin, commence, lead off, start
  

  source: wordnet30
• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical(verb.stative)

  Example:
  The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed.
  

  Synonym:
  cease, end, finish, stop
  Antonym:
  begin, start
  

  source: wordnet30
• be the end of; be the last or concluding part of(verb.stative)

  source: wordnet30
• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position(verb.social)

  Example:
  The company terminated 25% of its workers.
  

  Synonym:
  can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away
  Antonym:
  employ, engage, hire
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.(verb)

  source: webster1913