CEASE
Dictionary entry overview: What does cease mean?
• CEASE (noun)
The noun CEASE has 1 sense:
1. ('cease' is a noun only in the phrase 'without cease') end
Familiarity information: CEASE used as a noun is very rare.
• CEASE (verb)
The verb CEASE has 2 senses:
1. put an end to a state or an activity
2. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Familiarity information: CEASE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CEASE (noun)
Meaning:
('cease' is a noun only in the phrase 'without cease') end
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("cease" is a kind of...):
end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)
• CEASE (verb)
Meaning:
Put an end to a state or an activity
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
quit; lay off; discontinue; cease; stop; give up
Context example:
Quit teasing your little brother
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cease"):
call it a day; call it quits (stop doing what one is doing)
cheese (used in the imperative (get away, or stop it))
close off; shut off (stem the flow of)
pull the plug (prevent from happening or continuing)
retire; withdraw (withdraw from active participation)
sign off (cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations)
leave off (stop using)
drop; knock off (stop pursuing or acting)
break (give up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sentence example:
They cease moving
Meaning:
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
end; cease; terminate; finish; stop
Context examples:
the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed / Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other / My property ends by the bushes / The symphony ends in a pianissimo
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cease"):
pass away (go out of existence)
break (come to an end)
discontinue (come or be at an end)
come out; turn out (result or end)
close; conclude (come to a close)
disappear; go away; vanish (become invisible or unnoticeable)
go; run low; run short (to be spent or finished)
run out (become used up; be exhausted)
climax; culminate (end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage)
lapse (end, at least for a long time)
cut out (cease operating)
go out (become extinguished)
adjourn; break up; recess (close at the end of a session)
disappear; vanish (cease to exist)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
