terminate
     v 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" [syn: {end}] [ant: {begin}, {get
          down}]
     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" [syn: {end},
        {stop}, {finish}, {cease}] [ant: {begin}]
     3: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad
        scene ended the movie" [syn: {end}]
     4: terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary
        today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn:
        {fire}, {give notice}, {can}, {dismiss}, {give the axe}, {send
        away}, {sack}, {force out}, {give the sack}] [ant: {hire}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0