discontinue
IPA: dɪskʌntˈɪnju
verb
- (transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
- (transitive) To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).
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Examples of "discontinue" in Sentences
- To d0scontinu3 subscriptign reply woth only the word 'discontinue' as the subject to:
- We had to kind of discontinue the interview a little bit until they could get their footing.
- Microsoft has announced it will "discontinue" Xbox Live for the original Xbox and its games on April ...
- Microsoft has announced it will "discontinue" Xbox Live for the original Xbox and its games on April 15, including Xbox Originals and Xbox games playa ...
- Thomas Foster Jr., the son of a wealthy Mississippi planter, was given an ultimatum by his family to either discontinue his love affair with a slave woman or exile himself from his home and Southern society.
- In two places at once but only doing the one thing, or else fall behind the building's faces which discontinue trying to appear at all textured and sane about it but still whisper the brick and mortar details in both ears at once, twice.
- Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, speaking alongside Coburn, said the U.S. has 'got to make them pay a price for this kind of activity that is larger than the ransoms they're extracting,' so the pirates will be forced to 'discontinue' their activities.
- Also, MTA will reinstate service reductions, such as discontinue under-utilized subway routes and eliminate low-performing weekend express bus service which will result in cost savings valued at $62 million in 2010 and $129 million each year thereafter.
- Earlier this month, as part of an effort to reduce the risk of overdoses, Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson , along with acetaminophen makers Perrigo Co. and Novartis AG, decided voluntarily to discontinue a more-concentrated formula used in infant-drop products, and instead use the same liquid concentration of acetaminophen for both infants' and children's products.
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