Usually means: Cease to make or produce.
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  1. discontinue: Merriam-Webster
  2. discontinue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discontinue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discontinue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discontinue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discontinue, discontinue: Wordnik
  7. discontinue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discontinue: Wiktionary
  9. discontinue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discontinue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discontinue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Discontinue, discontinue: Dictionary.com
  13. discontinue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. discontinue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Discontinue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. discontinue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. discontinue: Rhymezone
  18. discontinue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. discontinue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. discontinue: FreeDictionary.org
  21. discontinue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. discontinue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. discontinue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. discontinue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. discontinue: Legal dictionary

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  1. discontinue: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).

Similar:
break off, cease, lay off, break, quit, stop, give up, bring to an end, put a stop to, come to an end, more...

Opposite:
continue, resume, restart, renew, recommence

Types:
end, halt, cease, terminate, stop, more...

Phrases:
to stop or discontinue doing something, discontinue sth, more...

Adjectives:
abdominal, diarrhea, rash, convenient, top, present, endpoint, many, future, better, accidental

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Similar:
break off, cease, lay off, break, quit, stop, give up, bring to an end, put a stop to, come to an end, more...

Opposite:
continue, resume, restart, renew, recommence

Types:
end, halt, cease, terminate, stop, more...

Phrases:
to stop or discontinue doing something, discontinue sth, more...

Adjectives:
abdominal, diarrhea, rash, convenient, top, present, endpoint, many, future, better, accidental

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     olive,     mauve,     taupe, more...



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