All continue antonyms

verb continue

• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• shorten — to make short or shorter.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
• desist — If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
• abbreviate — If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.