Cease

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To stop performing an activity or action; desist: "fold our wings,/And cease from wanderings” ( Tennyson).
  • n. Cessation; pause: We worked without cease to get the project finished on time.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To stop.
  • v. To stop doing (something), blin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist.
  • verb-intransitive. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
  • v. To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
  • n. Extinction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To stop moving, acting, or speaking; leave off; give over; desist; come to rest: followed by from before a noun: as, cease from anger, labor, strife.
  • To come to an end; terminate; become extinct; pass away: as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
  • To put a stop to; put an end to; bring to an end: as, cease your clamor; he ceased debate.
  • n. Cessation; extinction; failure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Verb Form
    ceased    ceases    ceasing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    end    ending   
    Hyponym
    leave off    sign off    pull the plug    call it quits    drop    retire    cheese    close off    break    shut off   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pause    abstain    stop    leave off    intermit    discontinue    desist    refrain    quit    end   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bernice    Clarice    Clarisse    Denise    Elise    Greece    Luis    Maurice    Nice    Patrice   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mobilium    beable    issueth    after