Cease

/sis/ · verb

Meaning

(formal, intransitive) To stop..

Definitions by Sense

1. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
2. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
4. (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).

Example Sentences

And with that, his twitching ceased.

After a short while, it ceased to rain.

And with that, he ceased twitching.

The poor shall never cease out of the land.

[...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;

’Twere best at once to sink to peace, ⁠Like birds the charming serpent draws, ⁠To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease.

the cease of majesty

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