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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISCONTINUE, v.t. [dis and continue.]
1. To leave off; to cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to stop; to put an end to; as, to discontinue the intemperate use of spirits. Inveterate customs are not discontinued without inconvenience.
The depredations on our commerce were not to be discontinued.
2. To break off; to interrupt.
3. To cease to take or receive; as, to discontinue a daily prayer.
DISCONTINUE, v.i.
1. To cease; to leave the possession, or lose an established or long enjoyed right.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jeremiah 17.
2. To lose the cohesion of parts; to suffer disruption or separation of substance. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off] [ant: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold]
2: come to or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" [ant: continue, go along, go on, keep, proceed]
3: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue, stop]

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French discontinuer, from Medieval Latin discontinuare, from Latin dis- + continuare to continue Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to break the continuity of ; cease to operate, administer, use, produce, or take 2. to abandon or terminate by a legal discontinuance intransitive verb to come to an end Synonyms: see stop • discontinuation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (-continues, -continued, -continuing) 1 intr. & tr. cease or cause to cease to exist or be made (a discontinued line). 2 tr. give up, cease from (discontinued his visits). 3 tr. cease taking or paying (a newspaper, a subscription, etc.). Derivatives: discontinuance n. discontinuation n. Etymology: ME f. OF discontinuer f. med.L discontinuare (as DIS-, CONTINUE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(discontinues, discontinuing, discontinued) 1. If you discontinue something that you have been doing regularly, you stop doing it. (FORMAL) Do not discontinue the treatment without consulting your doctor. VERB: V n 2. If a product is discontinued, the manufacturer stops making it. The Leica M2 was discontinued in 1967... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Intermit, stop, cease, interrupt, quit, break off, leave off, put an end to.

Moby Thesaurus

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