Hyphenation of terminate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word terminate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ter-mi-nate

Definitions of terminate:

1.	Bring to an end or halt 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
2.	Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense Either spatial or metaphorical 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
3.	Be the end of Be the last or concluding part of This sad scene ended the movie
4.	Terminate the employment of Discharge from an office or position The boss fired his secretary today The company terminated 25% of its workers

Synonyms of terminate:

verb	end, change, alter, modify
verb	end, stop, finish, cease
verb	end, be
verb	fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, remove

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.