Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
2. (transitive) To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).

Example Sentences

They plan to discontinue that design.

I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth.

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

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

Passenger traffic was subsequently discontinued, and early in the recent war a considerable amount of the permanent way at the Treforest end of the railway was taken up.

Exactly 50 years ago, the U.S. Federal Reserve, which had previously issued bills with values as high as $10,000, made it all about the Benjamins. Every bill more valuable than $100 was officially discontinued. (They’d stopped being printed decades earlier, but many had kept circulating.)

Beeching concludes, rather brutally, that "a high proportion of stopping passenger train services ought to be discontinued as soon as possible... and as soon as procedure permits".

If the penny is discontinued, it will join the ranks of other obsolete American coins, including the trime, a 3-cent coin discontinued in 1873, and the gold dollar coin, which was discontinued in 1889; that differed from the dollar coin currently in circulation.

Word Forms

• discontinues
• discontinuing
• discontinued

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When Should You Use Discontinue?

Use discontinue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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