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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discontinue \Dis`con*tin"ue\, v. t. [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.


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           Set up their conventicles again, which had been
           discontinued.                            --Bp. Burnet.
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           I have discontinued school
           Above a twelvemonth.                     --Shak.
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           Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these
           parts the space of seven hundred years.  --Daniel.
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           They modify and discriminate the voice, without
           appearing to discontinue it.             --Holder.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discontinued
       adj : 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     old, old-fashioned, on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date,
     outdated, outmoded, outworn, parenthetic, past use, patchy,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     superseded, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive,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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