Definitions of terminate:

• verb:   terminate the employment of

  Example: "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

• verb:   be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
• verb:   bring to an end or halt

  Example: "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI"

• verb:   have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

  Example: "The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"