Cease
[siːs] or [sis]
Definition
(noun.) (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end.
Typist: Willie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
(v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
(v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
(n.) Extinction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Desist, stop, stay, break off, leave off, give over.[2]. Fail, be extinct, be wanting.[3]. Terminate, end, be at an end, blow over.
Typist: Morton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Intermit, stop, desist, abstain, discontinue, quit, refrain, end, pause,leave_off
ANT:Ceaseless, never-ending, everlasting, constant, incessant,[See ETERNAL]
Checker: Osbert
Definition
v.i. to give over: to stop: to be at an end (with from).—v.t. to put an end to.—n. (Shak.) extinction.—adj. Cease′less without ceasing: incessant.—adv. Cease′lessly.—n. Ceas′ing.—Without cease continually.
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Examples
- I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, said Estella, and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Never will I cease to dog your footsteps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Notwithstanding the establishment of a regular routine of manufacture and sale, Edison did not cease to experiment for improvement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pray that my sufferings may soon cease. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The treaty will cease to be secret in a few months. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- This arose from the fact that, on account of the rapid succession of the electric impulses, there was not sufficient time between them for the electric action to cease entirely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Cease to look so melancholy, my dear master; you shall not be left desolate, so long as I live. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, said Estella, and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But the wheels had hard tires, the roads and many of the streets were not smooth, the vehicle got the name of the bone-breaker and its use ceased. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He stood, long after I had ceased to read, still looking at me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- After the effervescence has ceased, a taste of the liquid will show you that the lemon juice has lost its acid nature, and has acquired in exchange a salty taste. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It may be an admirable agent of reform, but it has ceased to be a church. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We were occupying ceased to afford comfortable quarters; and further orders not reaching us, we began to look about to remedy the hardship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I returned to my booksSylvie's sharp bark suddenly ceased. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Some two hours after the tapping is done the flow entirely ceases and the tree must be tapped anew to secure a fresh flow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The effect instantly ceases when the current is interrupted by breaking connection with either pole of the battery. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- So soon as a government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than the gang in possession, and its days are numbered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- During the motion of the coil, a strong deflection of the galvanometer is observed; but the deflection ceases as soon as the coil ceases to rotate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Experience then ceases to be empirical and becomes experimental. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The cause ceases; the effect must cease also. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- So they did, but their mistake was in ceasing to do well, and they learned this lesson through much anxiety and regret. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But if there is any logic about the Marxist, it should be his declared political end for which he should work without ceasing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He insisted on the risk of not ceasing; and repeated his order that no alcohol should be given. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This artificial respiration ceasing, do I feel any faint flutter under my hand upon the chest? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But she was gradually ceasing to expect with her former delightful confidence that she should see any wide opening where she followed him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Had you seen her so, Mary, you would not have implied the possibility of her power over my heart ever ceasing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- No case is on record of a variable organism ceasing to vary under cultivation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Editor: Trudy