culminate vs terminate

culminate and terminate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
culminate	No	No	Yes	No
terminate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, terminate is a hypernym of culminate; that is, terminate is a word with a broader meaning than culminate:

culminate: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
terminate: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Other hypernyms of culminate include cease, end, finish, stop.

As verbs, terminate is a hypernym of culminate; that is, terminate is a word with a broader meaning than culminate:

Other hypernyms of culminate include end.

culminate (verb)	terminate (verb)
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage	bring to an end or halt
rise to, or form, a summit	terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
bring to a head or to the highest point	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body	be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
reach the highest or most decisive point