Release and Terminate

Release

Release verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.

Usage example: they released the workers who couldn't handle the new technology

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Terminate and release are semantically related in keep topic. In some cases you can use "Terminate" instead a verb "Release".

Nearby Words: released, releasing

Terminate verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.

Usage example: he was terminated for constantly coming in to work late

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Release and terminate are semantically related in keep topic. Sometimes you can use "Release" instead a verb "Terminate".

When TVT began to take over creative control, and refusing to terminate the contract, Trent refused to release another album.

Source: Music Is Politics
I Cannot Self-Terminate: Masato begs Athena to destroy the Tantauls Super Computer and release him even if it means it'll kill him.

Source: Video Game / Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life
In another episode, "Mother's Love", a woman named Virginia shoots her college-aged daughter to death... but as an I Cannot Self-Terminate scenario since said daughter was drug-addicted and completely broken, and she asked her mother to release her from her suffer.

Source: Offing the Offspring

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