Verb
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 dictionaryI 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