Terminate vs. Exterminate

Terminateverb

To end, especially in an incomplete state.

Terminateverb

To set or be a limit or boundary to.

Terminateverb

To kill.

Terminateverb

To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.

Terminateadjective

Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.

Terminateadjective

Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

Terminateadjective

(mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

Terminateverb

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

Terminateverb

To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.

Terminateverb

Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.

Terminateverb

To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

Terminateverb

To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.

Terminateverb

bring to an end or halt;

Terminateverb

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

Terminateverb

be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;

Terminateverb

terminate the employment of;

Exterminateverb

(transitive) To kill all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.

Exterminateverb

To bring a definite end to; finish completely.

Exterminateverb

To drive out or away; to expel.

Exterminateverb

To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.

Exterminateverb

To eliminate, as unknown quantities.

Exterminateverb

kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many;

Exterminateverb

destroy completely, as if down to the roots;