discontinue

Verb

Meaning

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.

To be separated or severed; to part.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

break off stop break cease quit terminate give up lay off nix end close cut belay leave stay
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Antonyms

continue institute sleuth pirouette take create
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Hypernyms

end stop finish cease terminate

Hyponyms

bog break drop withdraw cheese interrupt

Related terms

discontinuation

Phrases with the word

discontinue a search discontinue a study discontinue an inquiry discontinue an investigation

Derivatives

discontinued discontinuing

Examples

I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people. Augustus

Whether, then, all ought not immediately to discontinue and renounce it, with grief and abhorrence? Should not every society bear testimony against it, and account obstinate persisters in it bad men, enemies to their country, and exclude them from fellowship; as they often do for much lesser faults? Thomas Paine

Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY. P. C. Cast

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. Manmohan Singh

The ideal country does not exist, as progress would discontinue. A life without ideals would be individually miserable and politically useless. Egils Levits

He did not command us to give up and to discontinue all these manners of service, for. Maimonides

Close letter words and terms

discontinuation discontinuation symptoms discontinuative discontinue a search discontinue a study discontinue an inquiry