• IPA: /dɪskənˈtɪnju/

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

1. To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something.

   They plan to discontinue that design.

   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iv]:

     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.

• terminate
• break off

• continue

• French: discontinuer
• Italian: interrompere, cessare
• Portuguese: descontinuar
• Spanish: retirar