discontinue
B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine verb
To stop a treatment or medication.
The diuretic was discontinued owing to a decline in renal function.
Law verb
To voluntarily bring one's own claim to an end before it is decided.
The claimant chose to discontinue the action but remained liable for the defendant's costs to date.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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