[
  {
    "word": "terminate",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8t\u025c\u02d0m\u026ane\u026at/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8t\u025c\u02d0m\u026ane\u026at/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/terminate-uk.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89014014",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"
        }
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8t\u025dm\u026ane\u026at/",
        "audio": ""
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To end, especially in an incomplete state.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to terminate a surface by a line"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To set or be a limit or boundary to.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To kill.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "break off",
          "discontinue",
          "stop",
          "axe",
          "fire",
          "sack"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "continue"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terminate"
    ]
  }
]