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Discontinue   /dɪskəntˈɪnju/   Listen
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Discontinue  v. t.  (past & past part. discontinued; pres. part. discontinuing)  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." "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."


Discontinue  v. i.  
1.
To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
2.
To be separated or severed; to part. "Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage."





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"Discontinue" Quotes from Famous Books



... his gesture. 'That constitutes a misdemeanor. Monsieur, as executor under the will of the late Comtesse de Merret, I come in her name to beg you to discontinue the practice. One moment! I am not a Turk, and do not wish to make a crime of it. And besides, you are free to be ignorant of the circumstances which compel me to leave the finest mansion in Vendome to fall into ruin. Nevertheless, monsieur, you must be a man of education, ...
— La Grande Breteche • Honore de Balzac
... that way when he received the letter from Baroness von Auffenberg informing him that she was forced to discontinue her lessons and recitals. She said that her constitution had been weakened, and that she was going to close her town house and spend the winter at her country place at Hersbruck. Daniel heard however that she spent a great deal of her ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann
... date from July 21st, 1908, when Admiral Bacon submitted proposals for the construction of a rigid airship, the ill-fated "Mayfly" which was destroyed on her preliminary trials. The Admiralty thereupon decided to discontinue the construction of airships, the development of which was left to the Army until May, 1914, when it was decided that all airships—that is No. 1 Squadron of the Military Wing—should be taken over by the Naval Wing. This was partly the result of a report by two Naval Officers, who visited ...
— Aviation in Peace and War • Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes
... to Kensington, that he had been a great deal to her brother's house, and had done much for Rupert's comfort. But as soon as he knew that she intended to stay in London he began to discontinue his visits. It was very evident that he had determined to see as little of her as possible. And, by-and-bye, he never came at all. For full three months before Kitty's engagement to Rupert Percival did not appear at the pleasant ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... I will discontinue the argument I'm making now. I've been trying to save you from—pretty serious things. The regret of having stood in the way of Morton College—(his voice falling) the horror of having ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell


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