What is the meaning of terminate?

verb

• Bring to an end or halt.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: end
• Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: end, stop, finish, cease
• Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of.
  • usage: "This sad scene ended the movie"
  • synonyms: end
• Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
  • usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
  • synonyms: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack