ceased

[ceased]

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.

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imp. & p. p.
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Usage Examples

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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