Discontinue

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon: discontinued her visits to the museum; discontinued ferry service to the island.
  • v. To cease making or manufacturing: discontinued the sportscar in the 1960s.
  • v. To cease subscribing to (a publication).
  • v. Law To terminate (an action) by discontinuance.
  • verb-intransitive. To come to an end. See Synonyms at stop.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To stop a process; especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
  • verb-intransitive. To be separated or severed; to part.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cease from; cause to cease; put an end to; break off; stop: as, to discontinue a habit or practice; to discontinue a suit at law, or a claim or right; their partnership has been discontinued.
  • To interrupt; break the continuity of; intermit.
  • To cease to take or receive; abandon; cease to use: as, to discontinue a daily paper.
  • To cease; come to a stop or end: as, the uproar discontinued at that moment; the fever has discontinued.
  • To be severed or separated.
  • To lose cohesion of parts; suffer disruption or separation of substance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. come to or be at an end
  • v. put an end to a state or an activity
  • v. prevent completion
  • Verb Form
    Hyponym
    leave off    sign off    pull the plug    call it quits    drop    retire    cheese    close off    break    shut off   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    part   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    continue