terminate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they terminate | |
| he / she / it terminates | |
| past simple terminated | |
| past participle terminated | |
| -ing form terminating |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to end; to make something end （使）停止，结束，终止 Your contract of employment terminates in December. 你的聘约十二月份到期。 - terminate something
The agreement was terminated immediately. 那项协议立即被终止了。 to terminate a pregnancy (= to perform or have an abortion) 终止妊娠（堕胎）
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesc1, Life stagesc1His contract was abruptly terminated. 他的合同突然被终止了。 The agreement was lawfully terminated under clause 34. 根据第 34 条之规定，协议被依法终止。 This federal intervention effectively terminated the strike. 这次联邦干预有效地终止了罢工。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- abruptly
- prematurely
- immediately
- …
- be entitled to
- decide to
- the decision to terminate something
- the right to terminate something
- [intransitive]
(of a bus or train 公共汽车或火车 to end a journey 到达终点站
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘direct an action towards a specified end’): from Latin terminat- ‘limited, ended’, from the verb terminare, from terminus ‘end, boundary’.