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discontinue

v. come or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31"

break, stop, break off

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

v. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

stop, halt, come to a halt, stop moving

v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

stop, halt

v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

stop, cease, discontinue, give up, quit, lay off

v. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

block, stop, halt, kibosh, put the kibosh on

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

finish, end, stop, halt, cease, run out, terminate, come to an end, close over

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

break, pause, leave off, intermit, take a break

v. cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"

punctuate, interrupt periodically

v. interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"

collapse, cave in, founder, give way, fall in

v. break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

refrain, abstain, desist, abstain from, desist from, refrain from

v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

recess, break up, adjourn

v. "The court adjourned"

suspend, set aside

v. make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"

freeze, suspend

v. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

suspend

v. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"

cancel, delete

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

step down, quit, leave office

v. give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

rest, breathe, take a breather, catch one's breath

v. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

paralyze, paralyse, make powerless

v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

finish, end, terminate

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

stop, intercept

v. seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

stop, halt, come to a halt, stop moving

v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

stop, halt

v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

break, stop, break off, discontinue

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

finish, end, stop, halt, cease, run out, terminate, come to an end, close over

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

block, stop, halt, kibosh, put the kibosh on

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

bail

v. deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period

concede

v. acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"

keep, continue, go on, proceed, keep on

v. continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"

preserve, continue, bear on, carry on, uphold

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

run, persist, die hard, endure, prevail

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

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