Word Meanings - DISCONTINUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: DISCONTINUE
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISCONTINUE)
- Abandon
- Leave
- forsake
- desert
- renounce
- cease
- relinquish
- discontinue
- castoff
- resign
- retire
- quit
- forego
- forswear
- depart from
- vacate
- surrender
- abjure
- repudiate
- Abstain
- Refrain
- forbear
- refuse
- demur
- avoid
- stop
- keep back
- desist
- withhold
- scruple
- Desist
- Cease
- drop
- abstain
- leave off
- Intermit
- Suspend
- relax
- break
- Interrupt
- Break
- disconnect
- intersect
- disturb
- hinder
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISCONTINUE)
Related words: (words related to DISCONTINUE)
- DEMURE
good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - RESIGNATION
1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, - DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - RELAXANT
A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. - VACATE
Etym: 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of - FORSAKE
1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to - LEAVED
Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved. - FORSWEARER
One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath. - ABSTAIN
To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton. - FORSAKER
One who forsakes or deserts. - DEPARTURE
The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton. - DEPARTMENT
1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's - DISCONNECT
To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious - DISCONNECTION
The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke. - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - RELAXATIVE
Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. - RESIGNED
Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - IMMIGRANT
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant. - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak