cease

[siːs]

Definition:
1. To stop happening or existing.
2. To stop something from happening or existing.
3. Bring or come to an end.

Use 'cease' in a sentence:

• 1. He never ceased to amaze his staff and students with new and exciting ideas.
• 2. So what happens when things cease to run smoothly, as when an earthquake interferes with the plant's systems?
• 3. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?
• 4. To cease providing effective service or function.
• 5. Cease believing that a single country or a small group of countries can solve a problem of such complexity.
• 6. When house prices merely cease rising, the rate of credit growth normally slows, inducing householders to save more and spend less.
• 7. When these objects break, we cease to exist.
• 8. They must immediately cease all their provocations.
• 9. A small number of firms have ceased trading.
• 10. Cease the waiting, and explore what arises, feel it completely, and let it go.
• 11. Whenever people learn something sufficiently well, they cease to be aware of it.
• 12. Her coughing ceased for a brief moment when she felt a sharp pain on her lower leg.
• 13. This behaviour ceases when parents stop hostilities and become more relaxed about the situation.
• 14. Production will cease at the end of January 2002 and the plant will close shortly afterward.
• 15. The secrecy about the president's condition had ceased to matter.
• 16. The company ceased trading in June.
• 17. You can only cease dealing with it if you have dealt with it.
• 18. They voted to cease strike action immediately.
• 19. You never cease to amaze me.