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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



... for tidying, obeying some mysterious principle of symmetry, settled her daughter-in-law's things and any piece of furniture in the room that had been moved from its place. This done, with her hands hanging before her, she looked round for an excuse to discontinue this irksome activity. Then, discovering none, she left ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc
 
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... they pursued their sport, the Emperor of Persia came in pursuit of game upon the same ground. When they perceived by the number of horsemen in different places that he would soon be up, they resolved to discontinue their chase, and retire to avoid encountering him; but in the very road they took they chanced to meet him in so narrow a way that they could not retreat without being seen. In their surprise they had only time to alight, and prostrate themselves before the emperor. He stopped and commanded them ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Anonymous
 
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... marriage;—but as no explanation had taken place on his part, Dorriforth's uneasiness was increased, and he seriously told his ward, he thought it would be indispensably prudent in her to entreat Lord Frederick to discontinue his visits. She smiled with ridicule at the caution, but finding it repeated, and in a manner that indicated authority, she promised not only to make, but to enforce the request. The next time he came she did so, assuring ...
— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald
 
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... this may be, prudence led me to discontinue visiting M. Desmaisons, with whom I was in habits ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
 
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... erased] person and, so far as I can learn, there is not a single item of property, real or otherwise, that is in his own name. If there were, we might attach that property for your debt, but we cannot attach Mrs. Clifford's holdings. All I can advise is to discontinue selling him more goods and to worry him all you can about the old bill. He may grow tired of being dunned and pay, if not all, ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
 
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