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TERMINATES

10 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

TERMINATES is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.

TERMINATES root TERMINATE-s

verb
  1. transitiveTo end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
    • to terminate a process before its completion
    • to terminate an effort, or a controversy
  2. transitiveTo conclude.
  3. transitiveTo set or be a limit or boundary to.
    • to terminate a surface by a line
  4. transitiveTo form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
    • We'll rough them all in before we start terminating any of them.
  5. transitiveTo end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
  6. euphemistictransitiveTo kill someone or something.
    • The enemy must be terminated by any means possible.
  7. intransitiveTo end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
  8. intransitiveOf a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
    • This train terminates at the next station.
  9. intransitiveTo issue or result.
adjective
  1. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
  2. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
    • Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth.
  3. Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
    • One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal.