discontinue

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.”

   “I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth.”

   “Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.”

   “They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.”

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).

   “AZT, the only AIDS treatment fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is extremely toxic, and many people with AIDS cannot cake it or must discontinue taking it after some period of time.”