Verb: cease sees
- Put an end to a state or an activity
"cease teasing your little brother";
- discontinue, stop, give up, quit, lay off, break, break off, surcease [archaic]
- Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
"The rain finally ceased";
- end, stop, finish, terminate
- (‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end
"The noise continued without cease throughout the night"
Derived forms: ceased, ceases, ceasing
Type of: change, end, ending, terminate
Encyclopedia: Cease