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# cease

«cease» in Mova's school dictionary: **To stop happening, or to stop doing something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (cease, ceases, ceased, ceasing)

### meaning for a pupil

(formal) To stop happening, or to stop doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Formal word in rules, history and stories: "the rain ceased", "cease fire" (stop shooting). In maths: "the tap ceased dripping after 10 minutes" gives an end point. Phrases: cease to exist, never cease to amaze, ceasefire.

### examples

- The rain finally ceased in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#x1)
- The factory ceased making toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#x2)
- Both armies agreed to a ceasefire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#x3)
- You never cease to amaze me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#x4)
- The noise ceased when the teacher walked in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#x5)
- Dinosaurs ceased to exist long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#x6)
- Iktomi ceased to beat his drum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/#x7)

### note

Formal; everyday word is "stop". Said "seess". Do not confuse with "seize" (to grab) or "seas". "Ceaseless" means never stopping.

### In the corpora

- [I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.911/)
- [Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.16/)
- [Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.54/)
- [All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.420/)
- [The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.494/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cease» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cease/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.