Discontinuance synonyms and antonyms

dĭs'kən-tĭn'yo͝o-əns

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cessation
A ceasing, or stopping, either forever or for some time
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retry (antonym)
Another attempt.
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continuation (antonym)
An extension by which something is carried to a further point:
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check
A check is defined as a mark put next to something written down to show it has been verified or completed.
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cut off
Fuse.
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halt
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
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stay
A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
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stop
(Nautical) A line used for securing something temporarily:
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stoppage
A stopping or being stopped
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break
An escape:
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discontinuity
A usually uneven surface between two layers of rock or sediment that represents either an interruption in the deposition of the layers, as in an unconformity, or a displacement of one or both layers relative to each other, as in a fault.
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disruption
A continuing act of disorder
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interruption
The interval during which something is interrupted; intermission
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pause
The definition of a pause is a temporary stop or rest.
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suspension
(Topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
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continue (related)
(Video games) an option allowing a player to resume a saved game.
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continuance (antonym)
The time during which something exists or lasts; duration:
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revocation (related)
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rescission (related)
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termination (related)
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restarting (antonym)
stop, suspension of activity
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Discontinuance Sentence Examples

  • Fitzherbert, in deploring the gradual discontinuance of the practice of marling land, had alluded to the grievance familiar in modern times of tenants "who, if they should marl and make their holdings much better, fear lest they should be put out, or make a great fine or else pay more rent."

  • In 1828, shortly after the discontinuance of the Farmers' Magazine, its Prize Essays and Transactions began to be issued statedly in connexion with the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture.

  • The arrival of the first railway train, on the 9th of February 1880, marked a new epoch in the history of Santa Fe, which until then had remained essentially a Mexican town; but with the discontinuance of the wagon caravans over the old trail, it lost its importance as the entrepot for the commerce of the South-west.

  • It was made a special subject of criticism by the Democratic party of the North, which was now organizing itself on the basis of a discontinuance of the war, to endeavour to win the presidential election of the following year.

  • This figure reached an average of 18,250 in 1873-1877, and from about 1880 until the discontinuance of the system in 1900 an average of 20,000 persons were annually exiled to Siberia.

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