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In some senses, cease is marked as formal, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
cease
UK /sis/ US /sis/
verb 3noun 1name 1
Definitions
verb
1
To stop.
And with that, his twitching ceased.
2
To stop doing (something).
And with that, he ceased twitching.
3
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;
noun
1
Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
the cease of majesty
name
1
A surname from German.
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