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cease (sēs)

transitive verb, intransitive verb ceased, ceasing ceas′·ing

to bring or come to an end; stop; discontinue

Etymology: ME cesen < OFr cesser < L cessare, to loiter, be idle < pp. of cedere, yield: see cede

noun

a ceasing, as of some activity
chiefly in without cease

Etymology: ME & OFr ces < v.

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cease

v.

desist, terminate, discontinue; see halt 2, stop 1, 2. See syn. study at stop.


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cease Usage Examples

Object

  • publication: The legal action that followed forced The Masses to cease publication.

Modifying Another Word

  • forthwith: In either case, the group must forthwith cease to use the name of Quest.

Infinitive complement

  • amaze: The power of the subconscious mind never ceases to amaze me.
  • occupy: The claimant landlord sought possession against a statutory tenant on the ground that he had ceased to occupy.

Preposition: in

  • 1960s: Steamer traffic ceased in the 1960s, with the PS Embassy making a final call on 24th September 1966.
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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which [Walpole] has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth, and not of those who continue ignorant in spite of their age and experience.

-Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe

[God's] changelessness means that he cannot cease to be what he is, but it does not preclude his doing some new thing to express what he is.

-Taylor,JohnVincent

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