HOW TO PRONOUNCE
cease
/sis/
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What does cease mean?
verb
- To stop.
- To stop doing (something).
proper noun
- A surname from German.
More meanings (2)
verb
- (obsolete) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
noun
- (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.
There was in the sound an expression of a deadly persistency, as if it had not began and was not to cease.
More book examples (3)
Very thankful to be safe on land he tied his boat securely, and sat down to wait until the storm should cease.
We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.
We can scarcely imagine the millennium when all employees would cease to despise their toil and cease to serve for pay alone.