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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discontinued
adj
  1. stopped permanently or temporarily; "discontinued models"; "a discontinued magazine"; "a discontinued conversation"
    Antonym(s): continued
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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