cease
cease is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv.
- 2.To put a stop to; to bring to an end. But he, her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed peace. Milton. Cease, then, this impious rage. Milton
- 3.Extinction. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abandon
- abandonment
- abjure
- abrogation
- all
- and
- argument
- avast
- back
- bed
- best
- bid
- break
- breath
- breathing
- cave
- cessation
- cession
- chair
- day
- defection
- depart
- desert
- desertion
- desist
- desuetude
- discard
- discontinuance
- disuse
- done
- down
- drop
- ease
- easy
- ever
- fallow
- farewell
- forego
- forsake
- from
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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