Thesaurus: cease
To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
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Definitions
- v. i. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
- v. i. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
- v. t. To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
- n. Extinction.
- n. (‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end
- v. put an end to a state or an activity
- v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- To put a stop to; to bring to an end.But he, her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed peace. Milton.Cease, then, this impious rage. Milton
- v:100 n. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end