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cease English

Meaning cease meaning

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Definitions in simple English

cease Verb

— If you cease something, you stop doing it. Around the time of the First World War, Clark brothers ceased operations, and the mill finally fell silent. Beyond the window, the rain ceased, giving way to sunshine.

cease

— verb (= quit) put an end to a state or an activity Quit teasing your little brother — verb (= end, stop, terminate) 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 — noun ('cease' is a noun only in the phrase 'without cease') end

Synonyms cease synonyms

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cease English » English

stop end finish terminate halt discontinue quit pause give up desist suspend leave off conclude come to an end abate rest complete pass off close break off subside refrain lay off disappear stop doing over interrupt cessation break abolish vanish restrain resign pass away knock off drop die down die cancel calm avoid abort abandon withdraw wind up stoppage stay stand still recover put an end to

Topics cease topics

What do people use cease to talk about?
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something
Social behavior Conflict Peace Make peace

Stop fighting
Grammar General words Be

Exist

Conjugation cease conjugation

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cease · verb

Examples cease examples

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Simple sentences

The factory will cease operations next month.
You will soon cease to think of her.
We all hope that this cease-fire will make for world peace.
The day will come when I cease to be on this earth.
Without him our company would cease to function.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the cease-fire resolution.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I demand that you cease and desist from sending unsolicited emails.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
I rest in tall, green grass, in peace. Around me grilling does not cease.
Her complaints never cease.
As soon as the spirit of exploitation is defeated, rearmament will be felt as an unbearable burden. There can be no real disarmament until the peoples of the world cease to exploit each other.
Rome, thou art a whole world, it is true, and yet without love this world would not be the world, Rome would cease to be Rome.
Please cease from quarreling.
You cease to care.
You never cease to surprise me.
Listen, Tom, do you promise that you won't cease to love me even after hearing what I'm going to say now?

Movie subtitles

Cease fire at once!
If you succeed, Philanthropy will cease to exist.
Cease your quarrels.
Let people think that you are happy together and they'll cease to be interested.
Hey, it's all over, boys, cease firing!
Miracles will never cease, Mrs. Bennet!
The jurors will cease whispering and give their entire attention to the case at hand.
As a grammarian, I know when words cease to be of use.
You know. I never cease to marvel at what lies behind a brownstone front.
The monster will cease to be an evil influence. and become everything that is good.
A request that the General cease singing.
Peace, children, and from your shrill reviling cease!
Wonders will never cease.
Sound the cease-fire.
Tell Schultz all persecution of the Jews must cease. At least till we've negotiated this loan.
In that case, my friendly attitude will cease.
Cease firing!
You know I never cease to marvel at what lies behind a brownstone front.
Cease your proclamations!
But what about all the hostages in the meantime? The executions will cease the minute the case is finished. Not before.
I can't cease to be surprised at them. They were lumpy when I first saw you.
The Queen will never cease to amaze us.
In view of that, I feel it would be more fitting that you should cease to be an employee here. - Oh. - And become instead my partner.
I never cease to be conscious of that.
Cease fire for 24 hours, so that Syrians and Frenchmen can sit together.
The cease-fire.
Tell Schultz all persecution of the Jews must cease.
Cease communication.
Cease firing.
Get a message through to the flagship to cease firing.
Tell 'em to cease firing. Urgent.
Cease firing. Cease firing.
To cease the quarrelling I will take the flower myself.
I cease all relations with people who are in love with me. or pretend to be.
Stop the reaction and cease experiment.
I say again, cease the experiment.

News and current affairs

Given the long lead time between project preparation and the first benefits of emissions reductions, project developers have only a few years to act before carbon payments cease to make a meaningful contribution to project finance in the current context.
When they cease their large-scale dollar-purchase programs, the value of the dollar will fall - and it will fall hard.
To be effective, such a cease-fire must contain a monitoring mechanism.
Historically, cease-fires have survived only when they are backed by talks that both parties believe are genuine and serious.
Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen has called on Palestinian extremists to disarm, or at least to accept a prolonged cease-fire, but they have responded with more terrorist attacks.
In 2005, the Hadjievs' car was incinerated by a bomb-like device, which they interpreted as a warning to cease their defiant challenges to the Bulgarian - and possibly Turkmen - authorities.
The report urges the president to understand that the spoilers will not cease to be spoilers as a precondition of negotiations, but only as a result of them.
Hamas initially reacted skeptically to the statehood bid, but supported it after the cease-fire, owing to its expectation that it will be able to exploit Palestine's upgraded status.
Eiland even advised Israel's government to recognize Hamas's rule in Gaza, lift the siege, and negotiate a prolonged cease-fire directly with the movement.
If so, the presidency would most likely cease to be a potential source of ethnic polarization, thereby strengthening the common identity that both Ukrainian and Russian citizens are committed to upholding.
On November 25, 2003, India and Pakistan agreed to a cease-fire along the Line of Control (LoC), the international border that divides Indian Kashmir from Pakistani Kashmir, as well as the actual ground control (AGPL) in strategic Siachen region.
The cease-fire thus covers a huge area: the 778-kilometer LoC, the 150-kilometer AGPL and the 198-kilometer international border.
WTO membership will also force the government to cease discriminating in favor of SOEs and against economic sectors with a high degree of private ownership, including agriculture.
There is also every reason to renew diplomatic efforts to bring about a lasting cease-fire and, following that, a settlement that addresses the grievances that helped bring about this crisis in the first place.
But the accord had a major flaw: the absence of a cease-fire.
Households and companies understand this and cease to consume or invest in anticipation of the painful spending cuts and tax hikes to come.
In 2006, for example, the NDRC produced a list of plants that were required to cease operations by the end of the following year.
The problem is that a weakened FARC may expose the government to popular pressure to launch negotiations, even if FARC does not declare a cease-fire.
That lead to Sadat's peace and Assad's 1974 cease-fire on the Golan Heights, which has never been violated since.
So we must cease being ignorant and reactive, and become informed and proactive.
Inflation dropped, but it took some time for it to cease altogether.
The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia's last largely free-flowing river, with work on the first project - the giant, 4,200-megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet - to begin shortly.

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