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cease

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/sis/
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/sis/ · /siːs/

Definition of cease

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (formal, intransitive)To stop.
    “And with that, his twitching ceased.”
    “After a short while, it ceased to rain.”
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verb

  1. (formal, intransitive)To stop.
    “And with that, his twitching ceased.”
    “After a short while, it ceased to rain.”
  2. (formal, transitive)To stop doing (something).
    “And with that, he ceased twitching.”
  3. (intransitive, obsolete)To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
    “The poor shall never cease out of the land.”
    “[...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;”
    “’Twere best at once to sink to peace, ⁠Like birds the charming serpent draws, ⁠To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease.”

noun

  1. (obsolete)Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
    “the cease of majesty”

name

  1. A surname from German.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”). Compare secede.

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