terminate

Verb

• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
  • The boss fired his secretary today
    
  • The company terminated 25% of its workers
    

• be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
  • This sad scene ended the movie
    

• 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
    

• 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 WW I
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  end , stop , finish , cease
• Antonyms: 
  begin , start , lead off , commence , get down , get , start out , set about , set out