cease
IPA: sˈis
noun
- (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
- A surname from German.
verb
- (formal, intransitive) To stop.
- (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
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Examples of "cease" in Sentences
- Livni: I don't like the term cease-fire since it looks like an agreement between two legitimate sides.
- MANN: Now, for the record, Hamas is observing what it calls a cease-fire, but it refuses to renounce violence.
- "I don't think they used the term 'cease and desist,' " Mr. DiFeliciantonio said, "although they may have used the word 'desist.'
- The argument runs that because the word cease is different from come to an end, it means tongues will stop at an earlier date, that is, when the New Testament is complete.
- Accordingly, the virtues of this consequential kind cease to oblige, when the circumstances that found the obligation cease* Hence, it sometimes happens, these duties annihilate one another.
- III. i.7 (394,1) That things might change, or cease: tears his white hair] The first folio ends the speech at _change, or cease_, and begins again with Kent's question, _But who is with him?
- In a few short months, all battleships on all seas will be destroyed or flung to the scrap-heap, and all nations shall disarm; fortresses shall be dismantled, armies disbanded, and warfare shall cease from the earth.
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- "Thoughts on the slave trade" books. google.com "I verily believe, that the far greater part of the wars, in Africa, would cease, if the Europeans would cease to tempt them, by offering goods for slaves" Sorry I couldn't fit the whole thing on the descriptions box.
- Bellow is from John Newton (ex slave trader and guy who wrote amazing grace) read 227-252 "Thoughts on the slave trade" books. google.com "I verily believe, that the far greater part of the wars, in Africa, would cease, if the Europeans would cease to tempt them, by offering goods for slaves" Sorry I couldn't fit the whole thing on the descriptions box.
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