Synonyms of the word

terminate

• v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
• adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
• adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
• adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

can

• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
• n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
• n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
• n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
• n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
• n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
• n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (slang) Jail or prison.
• n. (slang) Headphones.
• n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
• n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
• v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
• v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
• v. To shut up.
• v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

cease

• v. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
• v. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

dismiss

• v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
• v. (transitive) To order to leave.
• v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
• v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
• v. To send or put away.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

finish

• n. An end; the end of anything.
• n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
• n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
• n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
• v. (transitive) To complete (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
• v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

fire

• n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
• n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
• n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
• v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
• v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
• v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
• v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• v. (farriery) To cauterize.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
• interj. A signal to shoot.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

sack

• n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
• n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
• n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
• n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
• n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense⁴ below.
• n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
• n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
• n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
• n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
• n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
• v. To put in a sack or sacks.
• v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
• v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
• v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
• v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
• n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
• v. Alternative spelling of sac.
• n. Alternative spelling of sac.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.