terminating

The word “terminating” has 4 syllables: ter-mi-nat-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈtɜr.mə.neɪ.tɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for terminating?

In the thesaurus, “terminating” has 147 synonyms and 44 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for terminating along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for terminating

abating
annihilating
assassinating
axing
biting the dust
blotting out
blowing away
bottommost
bouncing
bounding
breaking down
breaking off
breaking up
bumping off
butchering
canning
carrying off
cashiering
ceasing
circumscribing
claiming
climaxing
closing
closing out
completing
concluding
conclusive
consequent
consummating
controlling
croaking
crowning
cutting down
cutting out
dead-ending
decisive
defining
definitive
delimiting
delineating
demarcating
demarking
describing
destroying
determining
discharging
discontinuing
dismissing
dispatching
doing away with
doing in
downsizing
dying
elapsing
eliminating
ending
endmost
ensuing
eradicating
eventual
excessing
executing
expiring
exterminating
extreme
farthermost
farthest
felling
final
finishing
firing
following
furloughing
furthermost
furthest
getting
giving over
going
governing
halting
hindmost
icing
kicking out
killing
knocking off
lag
lapsing
last
latest
latter
laying off
leaving off
letting up
limiting
liquidating
lowermost
lowest
massacring
murdering
mustering out
nethermost
neutralizing
offing
outermost
outmost
passing
pausing
penultimate
perfecting
pink-slipping
putting away
putting paid to
quitting
rearmost
releasing
remotest
removing
retiring
rubbing out
sacking
sending packing
separating
shooting
shooting down
slaughtering
slaying
smiting
snuffing
stalling
staying
stopping
succeeding
suspending
taking out
terminal
throwing out
trimming
turning off
ultimate
unseating
utmost
whacking
winding down
winding up
wiping out
wrapping up
zapping

Antonyms for terminating

animating
beginning
commencing
continuing
contracting
drawing out
earliest
eminent
employing
engaging
extending
first
foremost
hanging on
headmost
hiring
inaugural
inaugurating
initial
keeping
leadoff
maiden
opening
original
persisting
pioneer
premier
primary
prolonging
protracting
raising
re-employing
recruiting
reemploying
rehiring
restoring
resurrecting
resuscitating
retaining
reviving
starting
subcontracting
superior
taking on

Meanings of terminating

verb
1. To end, especially in an incomplete state.
2. To set or be a limit or boundary to.
3. To kill.
4. To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
5. Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
adjective
1. Coming to an end.
2. Of a decimal: having a finite number of digits.

Example Sentences

The company is terminating several outdated policies.
He’s responsible for terminating employee access after resignation.
We are terminating the lease at the end of this month.
The train is terminating at the downtown station.
They are terminating the agreement due to non-compliance.

On this page you'll find 191 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to terminating, such as: abating, animating, annihilating, assassinating, axing, beginning, biting the dust.

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