discontinue

From Old French descontinuer.

• IPA^(key): /dɪskənˈtɪnju/

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discontinue (third-person singular simple present discontinues, present participle discontinuing, simple past and past participle discontinued)

1. To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something.

   They plan to discontinue that design.

   • Shakespeare

     I have discontinued school / Above a twelvemonth.

   • Daniel

     Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.

   • Holder

     They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.

• terminate
• break off

• continue

discontinue

1. feminine singular of discontinu

discontinue

1. feminine plural of discontinuo