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# discontinue

«discontinue» in Mova's school dictionary: **To stop doing, making or providing something: The shop…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (discontinue, discontinues, discontinued, discontinuing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stop doing, making or providing something: The shop has discontinued that toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#m1)

2) (formal) To bring something to an end: The service will be discontinued. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a product is «discontinued» when the company stops making it; in formal notices and exams «discontinue» is a stiff word for «stop». Phrases: «a discontinued line», «discontinue a service», «discontinue the use of».

### examples

- They discontinued my favourite cereal, so we can't buy it any more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#x1)
- The bus service was discontinued last winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#x2)
- Discontinue use if your skin gets red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#x3)
- The factory discontinued the old model of car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#x4)
- My trainers are discontinued, so I need a new kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#x5)
- The club discontinued its Saturday lessons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/#x6)

### note

«Discontinued» is often used like an adjective: a discontinued product. Formal; in plain talk say «stop». Not the same as «continue» (keep going) — the prefix dis- makes the opposite. In maths, a discontinued item stops adding to a total from that point on.

### In the corpora

- ["Sunsetting" means ending or discontinuing a product: the firm stops making or running it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «discontinue» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discontinue/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.