Definition of cease

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Cease (v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased..

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Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (adv.) Without intermission or end.
Deceased :: Deceased (imp. & p. p.) of Deceas.
Inertia :: Inertia (n.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased..
Desist :: Desist (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
Halt :: Halt (v. i.) To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
Decease :: Decease (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
Late :: Late (v.) Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration..
Disembodied :: Disembodied (a.) Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
Stop :: Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop..
Dishaunt :: Dishaunt (v. t.) To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.
Lin :: Lin (v. i.) To yield; to stop; to cease.
Lull :: Lull (v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls..
De- :: De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc..
Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
Leave :: Leave (v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..
Terminate :: Terminate (v. t.) To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy..
Deceased :: Deceased (a.) Passed away; dead; gone.
Lin :: Lin (v. t.) To cease from.
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