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.