Noun

(en noun)

The act of sending someone away.

(senseid)Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.

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A written or spoken statement of such an act.

Release from confinement; liberation.

Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.

(legal) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.

(cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.

Noun

(en noun)

The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.

The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.

An end in time; a conclusion.

An end in space; an edge or limit.

An outcome or result.

The last part of a word; a suffix.

(medical) An induced abortion.

(obsolete, rare) A word, a term.

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She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations , there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.

The ending up of a polypeptid chain.