Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to discontinue
Participle: discontinued
Gerund: discontinuing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | discontinue |
| you | discontinue |
| he;she;it | discontinues |
| we | discontinue |
| you | discontinue |
| they | discontinue |
Perfect
| I | have discontinued |
| you | have discontinued |
| he;she;it | has discontinued |
| we | have discontinued |
| you | have discontinued |
| they | have discontinued |
Past
| I | discontinued |
| you | discontinued |
| he;she;it | discontinued |
| we | discontinued |
| you | discontinued |
| they | discontinued |
Pluperfect
| I | had discontinued |
| you | had discontinued |
| he;she;it | had discontinued |
| we | had discontinued |
| you | had discontinued |
| they | had discontinued |
Future
| I | will discontinue |
| you | will discontinue |
| he;she;it | will discontinue |
| we | will discontinue |
| you | will discontinue |
| they | will discontinue |
Future Perfect
| I | will have discontinued |
| you | will have discontinued |
| he;she;it | will have discontinued |
| we | will have discontinued |
| you | will have discontinued |
| they | will have discontinued |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | discontinue |
| you | discontinue |
| he;she;it | discontinue |
| we | discontinue |
| you | discontinue |
| they | discontinue |
Perfect
| I | have discontinued |
| you | have discontinued |
| he;she;it | have discontinued |
| we | have discontinued |
| you | have discontinued |
| they | have discontinued |
Imperfect
| I | discontinued |
| you | discontinued |
| he;she;it | discontinued |
| we | discontinued |
| you | discontinued |
| they | discontinued |
Pluperfect
| I | had discontinued |
| you | had discontinued |
| he;she;it | had discontinued |
| we | had discontinued |
| you | had discontinued |
| they | had discontinued |
Conditional
Present
| I | would discontinue |
| you | would discontinue |
| he;she;it | would discontinue |
| we | would discontinue |
| you | would discontinue |
| they | would discontinue |
Perfect
| I | would have discontinued |
| you | would have discontinued |
| he;she;it | would have discontinued |
| we | would have discontinued |
| you | would have discontinued |
| they | would have discontinued |
Imperative
| you | discontinue |
| we | Let's discontinue |
| you | discontinue |
Verbs conjugated like 'discontinue'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'discontinue'
continue,
discontent,
recontinue,
contynue,
deconfine,
discipline,
disconcur,
disconfirm,
disconsent,
disconsider,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to finish (something)
- conclude, consummate, do, fullcome, round off, stay, stop, terminate, end
- to cease to proceed or act
- absist, belay, blin, break off, cease, cess, cheese it, come to an end, desist, forbear, halt, have done with, hold, leave off, let up, rest, stanch, staunch, stay, stop, surcease, terminate
- cease
- finish, desist, close, quit, stop
- pause
- interrupt, break, suspend
Antonyms
- cease
- start, initiate, commence
- pause
- continue, proceed, advance, persist
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1479, from O.Fr. discontinuer (14c.), from M.L. discontinuare, from dis- "not" + continuare "to continue."
2. From Old French descontinuer, equivalent to dis- + continue.
Sample Sentences
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They plan to discontinue that design.
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I have discontinued school
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Above a twelvemonth. [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]
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Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. [1603, Samuel Daniel, A Defence of Rime:]
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They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. [1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech:]
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Passenger traffic was subsequently discontinued, and early in the recent war a considerable amount of the permanent way at the Treforest end of the railway was taken up. [1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:]
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Exactly 50 years ago, the U.S. Federal Reserve, which had previously issued bills with values as high as $10,000, made it all about the Benjamins. Every bill more valuable than $100 was officially discontinued. (They’d stopped being printed decades earlier, but many had kept circulating.) [2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:]
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Beeching concludes, rather brutally, that "a high proportion of stopping passenger train services ought to be discontinued as soon as possible... and as soon as procedure permits". [2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:]
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If the penny is discontinued, it will join the ranks of other obsolete American coins, including the trime, a 3-cent coin discontinued in 1873, and the gold dollar coin, which was discontinued in 1889; that differed from the dollar coin currently in circulation. [2025 February 11, Jiachuan Wu and Ash Reynolds, “As Trump aims to ax the penny, these are the coins that cost more than they're worth”, in NBC News:]
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AZT, the only AIDS treatment fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is extremely toxic, and many people with AIDS cannot cake it or must discontinue taking it after some period of time. [1989 April 8, Judy Harris, “Fenway to Administer Peptide T”, in Gay Community News, page 3:]