The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CANCEL
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More clues leading to the result CANCEL
- Do away with prison cell briefly
- Indefinitely postpone siting of new Church in California
- Abandon waterway with an area being given over to carbon energy
- Drop sign having changed hands
- Suppress evil influence after changing sides
- Scrub part of church, not hotel
- Discontinue with article on church in the middle of Vaucluse
- Stop party for foreigners held in unfinished room
- Wipe out “tropical” disease before 9
- postpone indefinitely
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The straight part
We know that "Discontinue" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case discontinue = cancel.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CANCEL mean?
CANCEL noun- A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
- An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- The page thus suppressed.
- The page that replaces it.
- To cross out something with lines etc.
- To invalidate or annul something.
- To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- To offset or equalize something.
- To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- To stop production of a programme.
- To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
- To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
- To kill.
- To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.