terminate vs clean out

terminate and clean out both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
terminate	No	No	Yes	No
clean out	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, clean out is a hyponym of terminate; that is, clean out is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than terminate:

terminate: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
clean out: to eject from somewhere

Other hyponyms of terminate include retire, pension off, furlough, lay off, squeeze out, dismiss, drop, send away, send packing.

terminate (verb)	clean out (verb)
bring to an end or halt	empty completely
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position	deprive completely of money or goods
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical	to eject from somewhere
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of