Discontinue
[dɪskən'tɪnjuː] or [,dɪskən'tɪnju]
Definition
(verb.) put an end to a state or an activity; 'Quit teasing your little brother'.
(verb.) come to or be at an end; 'the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31'.
Inputed by Logan--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
(v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Intermit, stop, interrupt, break off, leave off, put an end to.
Typed by Ernestine
Definition
v.t. to cease to continue: to put an end to: to leave off: to stop.—v.i. to cease: to be separated from.—ns. Discontin′uance Discontinuā′tion a breaking off or ceasing; Discontinū′ity.—adj. Discontin′uous not continuous: broken off: separated: interrupted by intervening spaces.—adv. Discontin′uously.
Typed by Brandon
Examples
- I now ordered him to discontinue his work of repairing roads and to move on with his whole force to Stevenson, Alabama, without delay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Discontinue when gums get sore and resume again when soreness is gone. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I appeal to you to discontinue your habit of making your misplaced attentions as plain to Mrs Boffin as to me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is a pity, cried Fanny, that the custom should have been discontinued. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was found, however, in practice, that the compound gas thus formed was more costly than ordinary coal gas, and the plan has been discontinued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The imitation of the action of horses' hoofs was one of the means attempted, but such additional aids were eventually found to be of no avail, and were discontinued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Good casts were often thus procured, but the uncertainty of the process, arising from the frequent fusion of the lead matrices, caused it to be discontinued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He met with other disasters common to worthy inventors and discontinued his efforts to improve the art. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The dances were discontinued, and so the belief in their failure is complete. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Micawber