/sis/, /siːs/
OriginFrom Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”). Compare secede.
- formal, intransitiveTo stop.
“And with that, his twitching ceased.”
- formal, transitiveTo stop doing (something).
“And with that, he ceased twitching.”
- intransitive, obsoleteTo be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
“The poor shall never cease out of the land.”
“[...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;”
“’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
Like birds the charming serpent draws,
To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.”
- obsoleteCessation; extinction (see without cease).
Formsceases(present, singular, third-person) · ceasing(participle, present) · ceased(participle, past) · ceased(past) · cease(infinitive) · cease(first-person, present, singular) · ceased(first-person, past, singular) · cease(present, second-person, singular) · ceasest(archaic, present, second-person, singular) · ceased(past, second-person, singular) · ceasedst(archaic, past, second-person, singular) · ceaseth(archaic, present, singular, third-person) · ceased(past, singular, third-person) · cease(plural, present) · ceased(past, plural) · cease(present, subjunctive) · ceased(past, subjunctive) · cease(imperative, present) · -(imperative, past) · Ceases(plural)
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