dismiss vs terminate

dismiss and terminate both are verbs.

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

As verbs, dismiss and terminate are synonyms defined as:

dismiss and terminate: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Other synonyms of dismiss include can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away.

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

dismiss: stop associating with
terminate: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Other hypernyms of dismiss include can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away.

dismiss (verb)	terminate (verb)
declare void	bring to an end or halt
bar from attention or consideration	terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration	be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
stop associating with