English > cease: 3 senses > verb 1, stativeMeaning | put an end to a state or an activity. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
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Model | They cease moving |
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Synonyms | discontinue, stop, give up, quit, lay off |
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Narrower | break | Give up |
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call it quits, call it a day | stop doing what one is doing |
cheese | Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) |
drop, knock off | stop pursuing or acting |
leave off | stop using |
pull the plug | prevent from happening or continuing |
retire, withdraw | Withdraw from active participation |
shut off, close off | stem the flow of |
sign off | Cease broadcasting |
Opposite | continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve | Keep or maintain in unaltered condition |
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Spanish | acabar, cesar, dejar, descatalogar, descontinuar, discontinuar, parar, terminar |
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Catalan | aturar, cessar, deixar, descatalogar, discontinuar, finalitzar, parar |
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Nouns | cease | ('cease' is a noun only in the phrase 'without cease') end |
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cessation | a stopping |
English > cease: 3 senses > verb 2, stativeMeaning | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
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Synonyms | end, stop, finish, terminate |
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Caused by | end, terminate | Bring to an end or halt |
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Narrower | adjourn, recess, break up | Close at the end of a session |
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break | Come to an end |
conclude, close | Come to a close |
culminate, climax | end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage |
cut out | Cease operating |
discontinue | Come to or be at an end |
go out | Become extinguished |
lapse | end, at least for a long time |
pass away | go out of existence |
run low, run short, go | To be spent or finished |
run out | become used up |
turn out, come out | Result or end |
vanish, disappear | Cease to exist |
vanish, disappear, go away | Become invisible or unnoticeable / unnoticeable |
Opposite | begin, start | Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense |
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Spanish | acabar, cesar, concluir, fenecer, finalizar, finir, parar, terminar |
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Catalan | acabar, aturar, cessar, enllestir, finalitzar, finir, parar, terminar |
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