discontinue

Etymology

From Old French descontinuer.

verb

1. (transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
   They plan to discontinue that design.
   Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. 1603, Samuel Daniel, A Defence of Rime
   They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
   Passenger traffic was subsequently discontinued, and early in the recent war a considerable amount of the permanent way at the Treforest end of the railway was taken up. 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52
   Exactly 50 years ago, the U.S. Federal Reserve, which had previously issued bills with values as high as $10,000, made it all about the Benjamins. Every bill more valuable than $100 was officially discontinued. (They’d stopped being printed decades earlier, but many had kept circulating.) 3 July 2019, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club
   Beeching concludes, rather brutally, that "a high proportion of stopping passenger train services ought to be discontinued as soon as possible... and as soon as procedure permits". March 8 2023, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47
2. (transitive) To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).