defund

1. (transitive, chiefly US) To cancel funding for.Examples: "Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?"; "However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions."; ""It has me concerned that this religiously-powered anti-access anti-person campaign has succeeded in a small town in America already," Chrastka told Motherboard. "The idea that there is a breakdown in the respect that we used to have in America for the separation of church and state and a rise of a political perspective that wants to essentially break government, defund education, approach issues around the rights of individual humans as if it was a criminalization campaign... this is a troubling moment and a signal for the rest of America to wake up.""Synonyms: unfundUStransitive