discontinue

dis·con·tin·ue  (dskn-tny)

v. dis·con·tin·ued, dis·con·tin·u·ing, dis·con·tin·ues

v.tr.

1. To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon: discontinued her visits to the museum; discontinued ferry service to the island.

2. To cease making or manufacturing: discontinued the sportscar in the 1960s.

3. To cease subscribing to (a publication).

4. Law To terminate (an action) by discontinuance.

v.intr.

To come to an end. See Synonyms at stop.

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[Middle English discontinuen, from Old French descontinuer, from Medieval Latin discontinure : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin continure, to continue; see continue.]

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discontinue

Verb

[-uing, -ued] to come or bring to an end; stop

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	discontinue - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" cease, lay off, quit, stop, give up knock off, drop - stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!" leave off - stop using; "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here" sign off - cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations retire, withdraw - withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" pull the plug - prevent from happening or continuing; "The government pulled the plug on spending" close off, shut off - stem the flow of; "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation" cheese - used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!" call it a day, call it quits - stop doing what one is doing; "At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books" break - give up; "break cigarette smoking" preserve, uphold, carry on, continue, bear on - keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"
	2.	discontinue - come to or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" fizzle, fizzle out, peter out, taper off - end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" leave off - come to an end, stop or cease; "the road leaves off at the edge of the forest"; "leave off where you started" expire, run out - lose validity; "My passports expired last month" continue, go on, keep, go along, proceed - continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
	3.	discontinue - prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" break off, stop, break fracture - become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe" terminate, end - bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" bog down, bog - get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" cut off, disrupt, interrupt, break up - make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

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discontinue

verb stop, end, finish, drop, kick (informal) give up, abandon, suspend, quit, halt, pause, cease, axe (informal) interrupt, terminate, break off, put an end to, refrain from, leave off, pull the plug on, belay Nautical

Translations

discontinue [dɪskənˈtɪnjuː] vt → interrumpir [+ payments]; suspender

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discontinue [dɪskənˈtɪnjuː] vt → cesser, interrompre;

"discontinued" (Comm) → "fin de série"

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discontinue [dɪskənˈtɪnjuː] vt → einstellen;

"discontinued" (Comm) → "ausgelaufene Serie"

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discontinue [dɪskənˈtɪnjuː] vt → smettere, cessare;

"discontinued" (COMM) → "sospeso"