About The Word Discontinue
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Discontinue
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What's The Definition Of Discontinue?
[v] prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break the silence"
[v] put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [v] come or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" Synonyms | Synonyms for Discontinue: break | break off | cease | give up | lay off | quit | stop | stop Related Terms | Find terms related to Discontinue: abandon | abjure | abort | belay | break | break off | break the habit | cancel | cease | come off | cut it out | cut out | desist | disarrange | disjoin | disuse | drop | drop it | end | forswear | give | give over | give up | halt | have done with | hold | interrupt | kick | knock it off | lay off | leave off | let go | nol-pros | not pursue with | put behind one | quit | refrain | relinquish | renounce | resign | scrub | shake | stay | stop | surcease | suspend | swear off | take the pledge | terminate | throw off | waive See Also | bog | bog down | break | break up | cheese | close off | cut off | disrupt | drop | end | end | expire | finish | fizzle | fizzle out | fracture | interrupt | knock off | leave off | peter out | pull the plug | retire | run out | shut off | sign off | taper off | terminate | terminate | withdraw Discontinue In Webster's Dictionary \Dis`con*tin"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Discontinued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discontinuing}.] [Cf. F.
discontinuer.]
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.
Set up their conventicles again, which had been
discontinued. --Bp. Burnet.
I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. --Shak.
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these
parts the space of seven hundred years. --Daniel.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without
appearing to discontinue it. --Holder.
\Dis`con*tin"ue\, v. i. 1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. --Bacon. 2. To be separated or severed; to part. Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. --Jer. xvii. 4. |
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