Discontinue /(?)/

Dis·con·tin·ue

Discontinue

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Discontinued; p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing

  1. 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.
    — Holder.

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.