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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Discontinue \Dis'con*tin"ue\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Discontinued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discontinuing}.] [Cf. F. discontinuer.] To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. --Bp. Burnet.
I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. --Shak.
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. --Daniel.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. --Holder.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
discontinued
adjective: stopped permanently or temporarily; "discontinued models"; "a discontinued magazine"; "a discontinued conversation" [ant: {continued}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "discontinued": abandoned, abjured, antiquated, antique, archaic, broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, deserted, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, disused, done with, episodic, fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parenthetic, past use, patchy, pensioned off, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive, worn-out
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