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• IPA: /dɪskənˈtɪnju/

discontinue (discontinues, present participle discontinuing; simple past and past participle discontinued)

1. (transitive) 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.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iv]:

     I have discontinued school
     Above a twelvemonth.

   • 1603, Samuel Daniel, A Defence of Rime:

     Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.

   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech:

     They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.

2. (transitive) To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).

• break off
• terminate

• continue

• French: discontinuer, arrêter, interrompre, cesser la production de, retirer du marché
• German: einstellen, auslaufen lassen
• Italian: interrompere, cessare, abbandonare, dismettere, interrompere, sospendere
• Portuguese: descontinuar
• Russian: прекраща́ть
• Spanish: descontinuar, descatalogar, retirar