The Clue
Completed (10 letter answer)
The Answer
TERMINATED
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Notes
The answer TERMINATED is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
TERMINATE as a verb:
1. (end, terminate) = bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
2. (end, stop, finish, terminate, cease) = have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
3. (end, terminate) = be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
4. (fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate) = terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
TERMINATED as an adjective:
1. (complete, concluded, ended, over, all over, terminated) = having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"
2. (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end