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The definition of cease means to stop or discontinue.

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An example of cease is a fight between two people being put to an end.

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transitive verb, intransitive verb ceased, ceasing

to bring or come to an end; stop; discontinue

Origin: 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

Origin: ME & OFr ces < v.

See cease in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb ceased ceased, ceas·ing, ceas·es

verb, transitive

To put an end to; discontinue: The factory ceased production. See Synonyms at stop.

verb, intransitive

To come to an end; stop: a process that never ceases.
To stop performing an activity or action; desist: “fold our wings,/And cease from wanderings” (Tennyson).

noun

Cessation; pause: We worked without cease to get the project finished on time.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English cesen

Origin: , from Old French cesser

Origin: , from Latin cessāre, to stop

Origin: , frequentative of cēdere, to yield; see ked- in Indo-European roots

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