1.bring to an end or halt;
She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime
2.have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
3.be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;
This sad scene ended the movie
4.terminate the employment of;
The boss fired his secretary today