terminate
v.v. to bring something to an end or to stop a process. It is a formal word often used for contracts, jobs, or travel routes.
v. to bring to an end or halt a process, relationship, or legal agreement. Transitive when referring to the action of ending something; intransitive when a sequence or route reaches its final point.
The company decided to terminate his contract early.
The train will terminate at the next station, so all passengers must leave the carriages.
The legal team advised the board to terminate the partnership immediately to avoid further liability after the breach of contract was discovered.
From Middle English terminaten (“to bring to an end; to adjudicate; to end, stop; to border, confine, contain”) from terminat(e) (“bounded”, also used as the past participle of terminaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin terminātus, perfect passive participle of terminō (“to set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from terminus (“a bound, limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see term, terminus. Doublet of termine, cognate with French terminer.
From Middle English terminat(e) (“bounded”, also used as the past participle of terminaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
The verb is both transitive and intransitive. In travel contexts, it often takes the preposition 'at'.
The meeting will terminate at 5 PM.The meeting will end at 5 PM.While grammatically correct, 'terminate' is often too formal or clinical for social events; 'end' or 'finish' is more natural.