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
- The Miscellany ceased publication.
- This powerlessness needs to cease.
- By the 1840s, the smuggling had ceased.
- Cease this combative interrogatory, please.
- As they inspect the ship the tapping ceases.
- Easing the embargo is not a cease of the blockade.
- So cease stopping the whitewashing and fix the article.
- The revolution of the spindles cease, the drawing rollers stop.
- The growth rates cease when the mineral accretion process stops.
- Flour production ceased in 1917 and provender milling ceased in 1947.