cease
/sis/ verb B2- To stop. · And with that, his twitching ceased.· After a short while, it ceased to rain.
- To stop doing (something). · And with that, he ceased twitching.
Plural cease · He/she/it ceases · Past ceased · Past participle ceased · -ing form ceasing
Verb forms
- Base form
- cease
- He/she/it
- ceases
- Past
- ceased
- Past participle
- ceased
- -ing form
- ceasing
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We are still faced with some big difficulties; but anyhow they have ceased to be impossibilities.
When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: “O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.”
When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.”
One of their company, an old man, said, “Let us cease lamenting, my mates, for, as it seems to me, sorrow is always the twin sister of joy; and it was only to be looked for that we, who just now were over-rejoiced, should next have something to make us sad.”
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