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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Go :: Go (v. i.) To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..
Jointure :: "Jointure (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail..
Unweary :: Unweary (v. t.) To cause to cease being weary; to refresh.
Leave :: Leave (v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd..
Ghost :: Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
Decease :: Decease (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death..
Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (a.) Without pause or end; incessant.
Cess :: Cess (v. i.) To cease; to neglect.
Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend..
Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body..
Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Death; decease.
"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) A tear-bottle; a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal..
Predecease :: Predecease (v. t.) To die sooner than.
Eternal :: Eternal (a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Stanch :: Stanch (v. i.) To cease, as the flowing of blood..
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