States and conditions
Synonyms for terminate
The synonym for terminate recorded in this bank is stop, in the sense "have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for terminate
- stopverb, in the sense "have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for terminate.
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed.
The true synonym
stop
Same sentence, swapped: The bronchioles stop in a capillary bed.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for terminate in the sentence quoted.
- dismiss
- begin
- differ
Where terminate turns up in the game
terminate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play terminate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so terminate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. terminate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.