Definitions for Cease
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.2 / 6 votes

1. ceaseverb

   (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end

2. discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay offverb

   put an end to a state or an activity

   "Quit teasing your little brother"

3. end, stop, finish, terminate, ceaseverb

   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 ends in a pianissimo"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. ceaseverb

   To stop.

   And with that, his twitching ceased.

2. ceaseverb

   To stop doing (something), blin.

   And with that, he ceased twitching.

3. Etymology: from cesen, cessen, from cesser, from cesso, frequentative of cedo.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ceasenoun

   Extinction; failure.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   The cease of majesty
   Dies not alone, but, like a gulph, withdraws
   What’s near it, with it. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

2. To Ceaseverb

   To put a stop to; to put an end to.

   Haste you to lord Timon;
   Importune him for monies; be not ceas’d
   With slight denial. William Shakespeare, Timon.

   You may sooner, by imagination, quicken or slack a motion, than raise or cease it; as it is easier to make a dog go slower, than to make him stand still. Francis Bacon, Natural Hist. №. 990.

   Cease then this impious rage. Paradise Lost, b. v. l. 845.

   But he her fears to cease,
   Sent down the meek-ey’d peace. John Milton.

   The discord is compleat, nor can they cease
   The dire debate, nor yet command the peace. Dryden.

3. To CEASEverb

   Etymology: cesser, Fr. cesso, Lat.

   1. To leave off; to stop; to give over; to desist.

   The lives of all, who cease from combat, spare;
   My brother’s be your most peculiar care. John Dryden, Aureng.

   2. To fail; to be extinct.

   The poor man shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv. 11.

   The soul being removed, the faculties and operations of life, sense and intellection cease from that moles corporea, and are no longer in it. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.

   3. To be at an end.

   But now the wonder ceases, since I see
   She kept them only, Tityrus, for thee. John Dryden, Virgil’s Past.

   4. To rest.

   The ministers of Christ have ceased from their labours. Thomas Sprat.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cease

   To cease means to stop, discontinue, or bring to an end. It generally implies a complete halt of an action, process, or operation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. Ceaseverb

   to come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased

2. Ceaseverb

   to be wanting; to fail; to pass away

3. Ceaseverb

   to put a stop to; to bring to an end

4. Ceasenoun

   extinction

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cease

   sēs, 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. [Fr. cesser—L. cessāre, to give over—cedĕre, to yield, give up.]

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1. cease

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CEASE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cease is ranked #36099 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cease surname appeared 621 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cease.
   
   84.3% or 524 total occurrences were White.
   6.9% or 43 total occurrences were Asian.
   3.3% or 21 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.2% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.6% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   1.4% or 9 total occurrences were Black.

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Cease' in Verbs Frequency: #569

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How to pronounce Cease?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Cease in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Cease in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Cease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Cease in a Sentence

1. Oscar Wilde:

   As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

2. Lot Chakonza:

   All politics must cease then we may find world peace, no political leader will bring peace to the world.

3. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet:

   For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

4. Mark Twain:

   My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

5. William Hazlitt:

   Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Cease
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cease
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Cease
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cease
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Cease
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Cease