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.