Definition of cease

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Cease (n.) Extinction.

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Dead :: Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man..
Rest :: Rest (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion..
Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (a.) Without pause or end; incessant.
Congeal :: Congeal (v. i.) To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled..
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..
Kill :: Kill (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind..
Annat :: Annat (n.) A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease..
Unlove :: Unlove (v. t.) To cease to love; to hate.
Dishaunt :: Dishaunt (v. t.) To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.
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..
Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
Third :: Third (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life..
Unknow :: Unknow (v. t.) To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of.
Ghost :: Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
Suspender :: Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank)..
Bury :: Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume..
Annual :: Annual (n.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day..
Demise :: Demise (n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person..
Cess :: Cess (v. i.) To cease; to neglect.
Annihilate :: Annihilate (v. t.) To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
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