Thesaurus: cease

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1. v. i. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
2. v. i. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
3. v. t. To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
4. n. Extinction.
5. n. (‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end
6. v. put an end to a state or an activity
7. v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
8. 1. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased "To cease from strife." Prov. xx. 3. 2. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv. 11. Syn. -- To intermit; desist; stop; abstain; quit; discontinue; refrain; leave off; pause; end. 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 Extinction. [Obs.] Shak.
9. 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
10. v:100 n. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end