discontinue
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they discontinue | |
| he / she / it discontinues | |
| past simple discontinued | |
| past participle discontinued | |
| -ing form discontinuing |
- discontinue (doing) something
to stop doing, using or providing something, especially something that you have been doing, using or providing regularly 停止；终止；中断 - [usually passive] discontinue something
to stop making a product 停止，终止（生产） a sale of discontinued china 出售已停止生产的瓷器
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘interrupt, disrupt’): via Old French from medieval Latin discontinuare, from Latin dis- ‘not’ + continuare, from continuus ‘uninterrupted’, from continere ‘hang together’.