terminate

/ˈtɜːrmɪneɪt/

意味: 終了させる

例文: They decided to terminate the contract.
　　  彼らは契約を終了させることにした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: terminate a contract(契約を終了する), terminate a pregnancy(妊娠を中絶する), terminate employment(雇用を終了する)

定義: 終わらせる、終了する、または中止することを意味します。何かを終わらせるための行動や決定を指します。たとえば、契約や仕事を終わらせるときに使われます。

terminateは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Verb: bring to an end or halt
Verb: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Verb: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
Verb: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

Verb: She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime
Verb: The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I
Verb: the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
Verb: Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
Verb: My property ends by the bushes
Verb: The symphony ends in a pianissimo
Verb: This sad scene ended the movie
Verb: The boss fired his secretary today
Verb: The company terminated 25% of its workers

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): can, cease, dismiss, displace, end, finish, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, stop, terminate

Antonyms(反意語): begin, hire

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): be, change, remove

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, accelerate, accept, account, account for, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, act, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, answer, antiquate, antique, appear, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, bake, balance, barb, barbarize, be well, beat, begin, belong, bench, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, breathe, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, buy, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, come in for, come in handy, commercialize, communize, commute, compact, compare, complicate, condense, confuse, connect, consist, constitutionalize, contain, contaminate, continue, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, cost, count, counterchange, cover, crack, cry, customize, cut, cut across, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, deck, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depend, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, deserve, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, disagree, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, displace, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distribute, diverge, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, drop, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fall, fatten, feel, feminize, fertilize, figure, fill, fit, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gape, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, go, gravitate, habituate, hail, hang, harmonize, harshen, head, heat, hold, hoodoo, hue, hum, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, impend, inactivate, incandesce, incarnate, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalid, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, iridesce, islamize, isomerize, jumble, kill, laicize, legitimate, lend, let go, liberalize, lie, lifehack, lift, liquefy, litter, loiter, look, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, make sense, mark, masculinize, measure, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, mope, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, object, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, osculate, ossify, oust, outmode, owe, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, pay, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, point, poison, polarize, politicize, port, press, professionalize, promise, proof, prostrate, prove, pull off, purify, put, put out, radicalize, rage, range, rank, rarefy, rate, rationalize, recognize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relate, relax, remain, remodel, represent, rest, restore, retard, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, run, run into, rusticate, rut, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, seem, seethe, sell, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shine, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, sparkle, specify, spice, spike, sputter, squat, stabilize, stagnate, stain, stand, stand by, stay, steepen, stick, stiffen, still, stink, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, subtend, suburbanize, suck, suffer, suit, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, swim, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tend, tender, tense, territorialize, test, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, total, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transplant, transpose, trim, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, underlie, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unseat, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, want, warm, wash, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wind, winkle out, work, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abort, adjourn, ax, break, clean out, close, close out, closure, complete, conclude, culminate, cut out, decide, discontinue, dismiss, dissolve, finalize, finish, furlough, go out, interrupt, lapse, lift, pass away, pension off, phase out, retire, run low, run out, squeeze out, stamp out, stub out, turn out, vanish

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: dismissal, dismissible, dismission, end, ending, finish, firing, sack, sacking, termination, terminative, terminus

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Exam Level

英検準1級

TOEIC500

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

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Movies(映画): Big Hero 6

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: sadness