What does Cease mean?
Definitions for Cease
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Princeton's WordNet
ceaseverb
(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay offverb
put an end to a state or an activity
"Quit teasing your little brother"
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"
Wiktionary
ceaseverb
To stop.
And with that, his twitching ceased.
ceaseverb
To stop doing (something), blin.
And with that, he ceased twitching.
Etymology: from cesen, cessen, from cesser, from cesso, frequentative of cedo.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.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.To CEASEverb
Etymology: cesser, Fr. cesso, Lat.
The lives of all, who cease from combat, spare;
My brother’s be your most peculiar care. John Dryden, Aureng.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.
But now the wonder ceases, since I see
She kept them only, Tityrus, for thee. John Dryden, Virgil’s Past.The ministers of Christ have ceased from their labours. Thomas Sprat.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Ceaseverb
to come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased
Ceaseverb
to be wanting; to fail; to pass away
Ceaseverb
to put a stop to; to bring to an end
Ceasenoun
extinction
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Cease' in Verbs Frequency: #569
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Cease in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Cease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Cease in a Sentence
The time is now for the cessation of hostilities, including missile and UAV strikes from Houthi-controlled areas into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Subsequently, Coalition air strikes must cease in all populated areas in Yemen, we've got to move toward a peace effort here, and you can't say we're going to do it sometime in the future. We need to be doing this in the next 30 days. We've admired this problem for long enough down there, and I believe that Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are ready, and in fact had the Houthis not walked out of the last effort that Martin Griffiths had going, we'd probably be on our way there right now.
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:
Greeks were being told that if we were elected and we stayed in power for more than just a few days the ATMs will cease functioning, today's decision puts an end to this fear, to the scaremongering.
What is surprising is that Obama announced publiclyafter the Merkel scandal that we will cease doing that to close allies, so apparently we did for close NATO allies, but we apparently made just a few exceptions and one of them is the leader of Turkey, Erdogan - not exactly a savory character. The other one was a close ally of democracy an elected leader, Netanyahu.
President Trump must demand and secure a real, concrete and comprehensive agreement that the Russians will cease their ongoing attacks on our democracy, failure to stand up to Putin would constitute a profound betrayal of the Constitution and our democracy.
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- يقطع, قطعArabic
- прекратявам, преставам, спирамBulgarian
- cessarCatalan, Valencian
- zastavit, skončit, přestat, ukončitCzech
- ophøreDanish
- einstellen, aufhörenGerman
- terminar, cesar, parar, dejarSpanish
- متوقف شدنPersian
- päättää, lopettaa, lakata, loppua, päättyäFinnish
- cesser, arrêterFrench
- leig seachadScottish Gaelic
- חדלHebrew
- रोकनाHindi
- befejez, abbamarad, beszüntet, abbahagy, megszűnikHungarian
- cesarIdo
- cessare, interrompere, arrestare, smettereItalian
- 止める, 止むJapanese
- 그치다Korean
- opphøreNorwegian
- parar, cessarPortuguese
- conteni, opri, încetaRomanian
- переставать, прекратить, перестать, прекратиться, прекращать, прекращатьсяRussian
- upphöraSwedish
- hintoTagalog
- durdurmak, durmakTurkish
- بند کرو۔Urdu
- 停止Chinese
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