discontinue
/ˌdɪskənˈtɪnju/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.11 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
Transitive verb
verb
To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it."
- "Passenger traffic was subsequently discontinued, and early in the recent war a considerable amount of the permanent way at the Treforest end of the railway was taken up."
- "Exactly 50 years ago, the U.S. Federal Reserve, which had previously issued bills with values as high as $10,000, made it all about the Benjamins. Every bill more valuable than $100 was officially discontinued. (They’d stopped being printed decades earlier, but many had kept circulating.)"