discontinue
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~ put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
discontinue
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~ prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
discontinue
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~ come to or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31"
discord
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~ be different from one another
discount
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~ bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"
discount
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~ give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"
discountenance
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~ look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"
discountenance
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~ show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"
discourage
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~ try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
discourage
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~ deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged
discourage
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~ advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet"
discourse
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~ talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"
discourse
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~ to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
discourse
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~ carry on a conversation
discover
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~ see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?"
discover
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~ make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"