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dis⋅con⋅tin⋅ue

  [dis-kuhn-tin-yoo] verb, -tin⋅ued, -tin⋅u⋅ing.
Use discontinue in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
2. to cease to take, use, subscribe to, etc.: to discontinue a newspaper.
3. Law. to terminate or abandon (a suit, claim, or the like).
–verb (used without object)
4. to come to an end or stop; cease; desist.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < AF discontinuer < ML discontinuāre. See dis- 1 , continue

Related forms:
dis⋅con⋅tin⋅u⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. See interrupt.

Antonyms:
1. resume.
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dis·con·tin·ue   (dĭs'kən-tĭn'yōō)   
v.   dis·con·tin·ued, dis·con·tin·u·ing, dis·con·tin·ues

v.   tr.
  1. To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon: discontinued her visits to the museum; discontinued ferry service to the island.
  2. To cease making or manufacturing: discontinued the sportscar in the 1960s.
  3. To cease subscribing to (a publication).
  4. Law To terminate (an action) by discontinuance.
v.   intr.
To come to an end. See Synonyms at stop.

[Middle English discontinuen, from Old French descontinuer, from Medieval Latin discontinuāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin continuāre, to continue; see continue.]
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Discontinue

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.

Discontinue

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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : discontinue
Spanish: interrumpir, suspender,
German: unterbrechen,
Japanese: 中止する
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discontinue 
1479, from O.Fr. discontinuer (14c.), from M.L. discontinuare, from dis- "not" + continuare "to continue."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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