To cease is to stop or end. Your gym teacher may have trained the class so well that all chattering will cease every time she blows her whistle.
To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist;
Noun
(`cease'' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease'') end
Verb
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony end
Verb
put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
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.
Cease
The poor shall never cease out of the land.
Cease
But he, her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed peace.
Cease, then, this impious rage.
Cease
To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist;
To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
Extinction.
Usage Examples
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Other Usage ExamplesI am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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