discontinue
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- IPA: /dɪskənˈtɪnju/
discontinue (discontinues, present participle discontinuing; simple past and past participle discontinued)
- (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.
- (transitive) To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).
- 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
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