discontinue
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See also: discontinué and discontinúe
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French descontinuer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
discontinue (third-person singular simple present discontinues, present participle discontinuing, simple past and past participle discontinued)
- (transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
- They plan to discontinue that design.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth.
- 1603, Samuel Daniel, A Defence of Rime:
- Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech:
- They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.
- 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:
- 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.
- 2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club[1]:
- 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.)
- 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:
- 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".
- (transitive) To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).
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Translations[edit]
to stop a process
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French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
discontinue
Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
discontinue
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