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Discontinue   /dɪskəntˈɪnju/   Listen
Discontinue

verb
(past & past part. discontinued; pres. part. discontinuing)
1.
Put an end to a state or an activity.  Synonyms: cease, give up, lay off, quit, stop.  Antonym: continue.
2.
Come to or be at an end.  Antonym: continue.
3.
Prevent completion.  Synonyms: break, break off, stop.  "Break off the negotiations"






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"Discontinue" Quotes from Famous Books



... perceived that I did not approve or was not amused, or it would have continued deliberately out of bravado. But it neither stopped nor hardily continued. It watched its experiment with interest for a little, then, finding me more interesting, did not discontinue it, but ceased to watch it. He went on with it mechanically, dreamingly, as if to the excitation of some other sense than sight, that of feeling, for instance. He went on lasciviously, for the sake of the ...
— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett

... that, altogether, for these years of distress, Lord Kenmare spent more on his Kerry estates than he received out of it; yet for this, Land League meetings were held on his estate, and he was denounced in Parliament. The week that the Land League compelled Lord Kenmare to discontinue his employment to labourers, the weekly labour ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... candour, sir," replied he, "but advise you to discontinue the practice. Walk over to leeward, sir, and attend ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat

... the changes are so gradual and so little marked that it is not at all necessary to discontinue vocal practice, if carried out with care and under the guidance of an intelligent friend or teacher; but because of the possibility of the voice changing in quality, there is no time when the advice of an experienced and enlightened teacher or laryngologist ...
— Voice Production in Singing and Speaking - Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) • Wesley Mills

... in prison or the constant danger she was in. The truth is that three soldiers slept in her room, three of the brigand ruffians called houspilleurs;[78] that she was chained to a beam by a large iron chain, almost wholly at their mercy; the man's dress they wished to compel her to discontinue was all her safeguard. What are we to think of the imbecility of the judge, or of ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various


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