Crossword clues for discontinued
discontinued
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discontinue \Dis`con*tin"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discontinued; p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing.] [Cf. F. discontinuer.] 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.
Wiktionary
Permanently no longer available or in production. v
(en-past of: discontinue)
WordNet
adj. stopped permanently or temporarily; "discontinued models"; "a discontinued magazine"; "a discontinued conversation" [ant: continued]
Usage examples of "discontinued".
While there existed blighted areas where rail service had been discontinued, there existed at the same time large regions where two or more railroads were competing for a traffic barely sufficient for one.
He asked himself whether he could deliver his children to the fate of the children of the unemployed, as he had seen them in the blighted areas, in the settlements around closed factories and along the tracks of discontinued railroads.
Especially since many of the substances they used seem to have been past recommended shelf life, or discontinued types, or both.
At the time of this writing, the Australian publisher has discontinued the magazine, and it is doubtful whether a new British publisher will be found.
The magazine existed until 1947, when it finally drowned in a flood of Wild West, sport and mystery stories and was discontinued, mourned by none except a handful of aficionados.
Their task then, and for the next week until it was discontinued, was “airfield denial,” using their big, heavy JP-233 runway-busting bombs.
As it happened, Martin had discontinued two of them for security reasons, but the third still operated.
The alarming possibility of having his post-graduate grant discontinued on the grounds that he was an ungrateful subversive loomed up in Donald's mind.
I wondered if that was what had broken this girl’s heart, that they had discontinued her pattern?