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ceased

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verb (used without object)

to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.

to come to an end: At last the war has ceased.

Obsolete. to pass away; die out.

verb (used with object)

to put a stop or end to; discontinue: He begged them to cease their quarreling.

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noun

cessation: The noise of the drilling went on for hours without cease.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English ces(s)en < Old French cesser < Latin cessāre to leave off, equivalent to cess(us) (past participle of cēdere to withdraw, go; ced- go + -tus past participle suffix) + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive ending; see cede

Related forms

un·ceased, adjective

Synonyms
2. terminate, end, culminate.

Antonyms
1, 2. begin.

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No romantic momentsOrdinary life ceased by fiat, by terror, during the four.

We have ceased to be a nation of citizens and have be relegated to a country full of consumers.

Only a minority of borrowers abruptly ceased to make payments, as someone choosing to default would.

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No romantic momentsOrdinary life ceased by fiat, by terror, during the four.

We have ceased to be a nation of citizens and have be relegated to a country full of consumers.

Only a minority of borrowers abruptly ceased to make payments, as someone choosing to default would.

The original photons ceased to exist once the replicas were created.

We have ceased in individual selection a long time.

Gaiman has never ceased to inspire and delight readers of all ages and temperaments.

In priest hood and monkery he had ceased to believe.

But the twins had long since ceased being the only players in.

He never ceased to be amused by the celebrity status that the book subsequently gave him.

Experts don't know exactly when the newly discovered structure ceased to function as a pagan temple.

These religions became mythologies to our perspective once they ceased to be living beliefs.

It's lost some human capcities, but it's not ceased to be a living being".

Once disengaged from its engine of incessant progress, they have often ceased to exist.

However, the job had long ceased to be challenging or personally fulfilling.

Indeed, it has long since ceased to be of central importance even to the local area.

The practices of warfare and fratricide have ceased.

Normal speech syntax returned as word transpositions ceased.

Too many regions and communities have ceased to worry about polio.

Plaster casts made from hollowed-out molds of rock, where bodies had been captured a moment before they ceased to.

And he has never ceased to practice a method of allegorical interpretation that makes the text conform to interpreters' ideas.

But your worry that the reform agenda has ceased is misleading.

Bartels ceased struggling, mimicking dead prey, and fooled the lion into relaxing his jaws.

Nobody claims that the natural causes of warming and or cooling have suddenly ceased to exist.

It's about a man whose job is burning books, a medium that by this time had long since ceased to cause alarm.

The book seemed at first a dismal flop, but within a year its sale started to pick up and it has never ceased.

Finland however has not ceased to be that, which may sound quite peculiar to those from elsewhere.

As the crustaceans became harder to find, canned lobster ceased to be profitable.

The attacks ceased for a few months after her release.

Sunspot activity has ceased and earth's temperature is now falling rapidly.

Its use hasn't ceased completely, but it's diminished enough to slow the vulture die-off.

But somehow, in making the leap from sewer to salon, pop music has ceased to be an adventure.

They come from homes where families ceased to subscribe to newspapers years ago.

The business of fashion had ceased to enchant by then.

Boracay has never ceased to amaze many people from all over the world.

Signaling in the experiment never ceased completely.

The rain ceased falling in this vicinity this morning.

We have ceased to believe that a friend's highest purpose is to summon us to the good by offering moral advice and correction.

He stopped washing, grew long dreadlocks, and ceased to talk coherently.

He has ceased granting interviews with cable and satellite news reporters.

As it is, they have ceased to take any active interest in the case.

Let's be clear that this ceased to be me a long time ago.

Measured returns for the sector were boosted by survivor bias: failed funds ceased to be counted in the indices.

After the original fissures ceased activity, the magma found a new route to the surface, this time underneath.

He not only lost his ability to walk, he also ceased being able to sweat, which led to clogged pores and chronic breakouts.

Sometimes it would seem that once you are on a plane, your rights ceased to exist.

Viermenhouk suggests that while human beings have ceased to evolve as individual.

All talk of compromise had ceased for the time being.

Manufacturing has slowly but surely ceased to be a big employer of workers with low levels of education.

It's only since hunting ceased that they've been recorded.

Ignatieff has not yet ceased to be the starting point of conversation.

Then, during the crash, fundamentals ceased to matter much at all as basically every market suffered from declining prices.

I've almost ceased to mention this in reviews, since it's been the case in every new phone we're seeing.

Both made brilliant entries into the after-theatre restaurant life of the city and then suddenly ceased to exist.

After three or four viewings, the creepiness ceased to matter.

The eruptive activity has ceased but the seismicity continues, suggesting magma moving under the volcano.

Then the power failed and the ship ceased responding.

Inflation expectations ceased falling and began rising back to normal levels.

The crude appeal of banners and buttons remains important, but long ago ceased to be at the center of the digital action.

The fruit on the label was such a bad old joke, they'd ceased to even notice it.

But this was under-powered and ceased production because demand was so low.

Some universities, or departments within them, have already ceased to exist.

The magazine ceased publication last spring when she suffered a heart attack.

China has ceased handing out pandas free as a gesture of friendship to other countries.

Only when that practice ceased had disaster befallen.

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Word Origin & History

cease

c.1300, from O.Fr. cesser, from L. cessare "to cease, go slow," frequentative of cedere "go away, withdraw, yield" (see cede). Replaced O.E. geswican, and blinnan. Ceaseless is recorded from 1586; ceaselessly from 1593. Cease-fire "armistice" is from 1918.

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