Verb

• S: (v) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off (put an end to a state or an activity) "Quit teasing your little brother"
• S: (v) discontinue (come to or be at an end) "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) taper off, peter out, fizzle out, fizzle (end weakly) "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
• S: (v) leave off (come to an end, stop or cease) "the road leaves off at the edge of the forest"; "leave off where you started"
• S: (v) run out, expire (lose validity) "My passports expired last month"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• antonym
• sentence frame
• S: (v) break, break off, discontinue, stop (prevent completion) "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"