Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon: synonym: stop.
- intransitive verb To cease making or manufacturing.
- intransitive verb To cease subscribing to (a publication).
- intransitive verb To agree to dismiss (an action).
- intransitive verb To fail to proceed in (an action).
- intransitive verb To come to an end.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cease from; cause to cease; put an end to; break off; stop: as, to
discontinue a habit or practice; to discontinue a suit at law, or a claim or right; their partnership has been discontinued. - To interrupt; break the continuity of; intermit.
- To cease to take or receive; abandon; cease to use: as, to
discontinue a daily paper. - To cease; come to a stop or end: as, the uproar discontinued at that moment; the fever has discontinued.
- To be severed or separated.
- To lose cohesion of parts; suffer disruption or separation of substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
- intransitive verb To be separated or severed; to part.
- transitive 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To stop a process; especially as regards commercial productions; to stop
producing ,making , orsupplying something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb come to or be at an end
- verb put an end to a state or an activity
- verb prevent completion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Archive 2008-01-01 Angry Professor 2008
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We had to kind of discontinue the interview a little bit until they could get their footing.
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Mailbag Monday: Edition "Spammy goodness frying in my head." Angry Professor 2008
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Microsoft has announced it will "discontinue" Xbox Live for the original Xbox and its games on April 15, including Xbox Originals and Xbox games playa ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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Microsoft has announced it will "discontinue" Xbox Live for the original Xbox and its games on April ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, speaking alongside Coburn, said the U.S. has 'got to make them pay a price for this kind of activity that is larger than the ransoms they're extracting,' so the pirates will be forced to 'discontinue' their activities.
unknown title 2009
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Also, MTA will reinstate service reductions, such as discontinue under-utilized subway routes and eliminate low-performing weekend express bus service which will result in cost savings valued at $62 million in 2010 and $129 million each year thereafter.
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Thomas Foster Jr., the son of a wealthy Mississippi planter, was given an ultimatum by his family to either discontinue his love affair with a slave woman or exile himself from his home and Southern society.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In two places at once but only doing the one thing, or else fall behind the building's faces which discontinue trying to appear at all textured and sane about it but still whisper the brick and mortar details in both ears at once, twice.
After Tom Phillips Alex Taitague 2011
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Earlier this month, as part of an effort to reduce the risk of overdoses, Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson , along with acetaminophen makers Perrigo Co. and Novartis AG, decided voluntarily to discontinue a more-concentrated formula used in infant-drop products, and instead use the same liquid concentration of acetaminophen for both infants' and children's products.
Panel Calls for Label Changes on Acetaminophen Products Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011
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