discontinue
verbEtymology
From Old French descontinuer, equivalent to dis- + continue.
- derived from continuāre
- derived from continuer
- inherited from continuen
Definitions
To interrupt the continuance of
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.
- I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth.
- Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).
- AZT, the only AIDS treatment fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is extremely toxic, and many people with AIDS cannot cake it or must discontinue taking it after some period of time.
The neighborhood
- synonymbreak off
- synonymterminate
- synonymintermit
- antonymcontinue
- neighbordiscontinuation
- neighbordeprecate
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at discontinue. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at discontinue. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at discontinue
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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