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discontinuingverbpresent participle of discontinue to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endthe editors were told to discontinue the printing of rumors in the student paper immediately breaking, breaking off, breaking up, canning(slang), ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), dropping, ending, giving over, halting, knocking off, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), quitting, shutting off, stopping completing, concluding, finishingclosing (down)deactivatingblockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemmingcalling, suspendingarresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backpausing, staying, suspendingabolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing having done with, putting the kibosh on carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running onadvancing, proceeding, progressingactuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring to stop doing (something) permanentlywe have discontinued the manufacture of that item abandoning, dropping, giving up, knocking off, laying off (of), packing (up or in), quitting breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, ending, expiring, finishing, halting, leaving off, shutting offpausing, tapering offthrowing uprounding (off or out), terminating, winding up, wrapping up hanging it up, having done (with) carrying on, continuing, keeping, keeping up, maintaining going, running onhanging in, hanging on, holding on, persevering, persistingfollowing through (with)renewing, reopening, restarting, resumingpreserving, stayingbeginning, commencing, starting to come to an endpublication of the magazine will discontinue at the end of the year breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, dying, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting |