TERMINATED Synonyms: 190 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in finished

brought or having come to an end there is an effort to restart the terminated negotiations

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verb

past tense of terminate

as in ended

to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point we need to terminate the discussion for this evening, but we'll resume tomorrow morning

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as in concluded

to come to an end this class will terminate with the arrival of Memorial Day

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as in defined

to mark the limits of terminated the area set aside for the runners to change their clothes with a series of folding screens

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as in assassinated

to put to death deliberately the operative's covert mission was to terminate the leader of the opposition

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as in removed

to let go from office, service, or employment he was terminated for constantly coming in to work late

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Recent Examples of terminated

Adjective

Some of the administration’s attempts to cancel research grants that focused on topics like gender, diversity, equity and inclusion have been reversed, but roughly 1,240 grants remain terminated, according to a tracking project called Grant Witness. —

Aria Bendix, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026

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Graduate students are being lost, postdocs are not being hired, high-quality research is being terminated. —

Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026 Spears had an infamously contentious relationship with the press, and paparazzi in particular, in the 2000s, prior to her 13-year conservatorship, which was ultimately terminated in late 2021. —

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026 The lawsuit alleges the city terminated its contract with Allied more than a month before it was set to expire. —

Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026 The couple's parental rights have since been terminated. —

Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 13 May 2026 Miami-Dade County Public Schools said Wright is in the process of being terminated. —

Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026 The couple’s parental rights have also been terminated. —

Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026 Five minutes later, Sohaib was already trying to access his (now former) employer’s network—but found that his VPN access and Windows account were terminated. —

Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 12 May 2026 Fendi originally terminated its agreement with Luxury Living Group in 2021, when the brand and Flos B&B Italia (formerly Design Holding) formed Fashion Furniture Design, or FF Design, to develop the Fendi Casa business. —

Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 12 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminated

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While the festival will unspool finished features, a big component of the event includes a robust industry presence with dozens of mentoring tables, financing and production panels and discussions as well as opportunities with sales agents, buyers and other industryites.

— Carole Horst, Variety, 13 May 2026
Toulouse spied potential, not the finished article.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 13 May 2026