cease
put an end to a state or an activity
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,949 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,564 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- put an end to a state or an activity also: discontinue, stop, give up, quit, lay off Quit teasing your little brother
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical also: end, stop, finish, terminate the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bedYour rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
noun
- (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
cease in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain, Which Heav'n may hear, nor deem Religion vain.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two · Samuel Johnson · Chapter 1
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This time the wind did not cease with the return of the snow.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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Ere the world will cease to vary, This I weep for, this I sorrow.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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No matter how frightened he became, it never occurred to him that he might cease to exist.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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I made an accidental hit with the Clockmaker: when he ceases to speak, I shall cease to write.
The Attaché · Thomas Chandler Haliburton · Chapter 1