Terminate vs Exterminate - What's the difference?
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To end, especially in an incomplete state.
* J. S. Harford
To kill.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
(label) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
To kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.
(figuratively) To bring a definite end to, finish completely. A rather strong word that implies that what has been ended won't resurface.
Exterminate is a related term of terminate.
As verbs the difference between terminate and exterminate
is that terminate is to end, especially in an incomplete state while exterminate is to kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.As an adjective terminate
is terminated; limited; bounded; ended.terminate
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(terminat)Synonyms
* (to end incompletely) discontinue, stop, break off * (to kill) See alsoAntonyms
* (to end incompletely) continueSee also
* abortExternal links
* *Adjective
(en adjective)References
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* English ergative verbs ----exterminate
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(exterminat)- We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
- Even a mass birching at the public school failed to exterminate truancy.