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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to stop doing or providing something that was otherwise done/provided regularly;

e.g. The transit authority decided to discontinue the bus route because very few passengers used it.

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Similar Words

Abandon

Blacklist

Break

Breakup

Can

Cease

Conclude

Cutoff

Dead-end

Desist

Detain

Determine

Die

Drop

Elapse

Expire

From

Go

It

Knockoff

Lapse

Layoff

Letup

Pass

Quit

Stop

Terminate

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Opposite Words

Abide

Actualize

Actuate

Advance

Appear

Be

Begin

Bide

Break

Breathe

Come-on

Commence

Complete

Consummate

Continue

Drive

Endure

Engender

Exist

Extend

Finalize

Finish

Form

Go

Impel

Into

Kickoff

Last

Launch

Leadoff

Live

Liver

Materialize

Open

Or

Originate

Perfect

Persevere

Persist

Pickup

Polish

Preserve

Proceed

Progress

Prolong

Propel

Protract

Remain

Renew

Reopen

Restart

Resume

Spring

Stay

Stir

Stricken

Subsist

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Related Words

Abandon

Abolish

Abort

Adjourn

Annul

Arrest

Ban

Bar

Block

Blockade

Brake

Break

Call

Cancel

Catch

Cease

Check

Close

Closeout

Complete

Conclude

Dam

Deactivate

Debar

Delay

Demolish

Destroy

Detain

Dissolve

Drop

Eliminate

End

Except

Exclude

Expire

Finish

Halt

Hinder

Hold

Holdup

Impede

Kibosh

Kill

Obstruct

Pause

Prorogue

Recall

Recess

Repeal

Rescind

Revoke

Ruin

Scuttle

Shutout

Snuff

Squash

Squelch

Stall

Stamp

Stanch

Staunch

Stay

Stem

Still

Stop

Stunt

Suppress

Suspend

Terminate

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Phrases

• kick the habit/break the habit

• pull the plug

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