ceaseverb [ I or T ]
uk/siːs/us/siːs/formalB2 to stop something:
Whether the protests will cease remains to be seen.
The company has decided to cease all UK operations after this year.
[ + to infinitive ] Workplace nurseries will cease to be liable for tax.
More examples
- We expect these practices to cease forthwith.
- He claims that prejudice against homosexuals would cease overnight if all the gay stars in the country were honest about their sexuality.
- This barbarity must cease!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- let sb be idiom
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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ceasenoun
uk/siːs/us/siːs/formalwithout cease
without stopping
See also
cessation
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Continue & last
- bash on
- carry (sth) on
- cont
- contd
- continuation
- drag
- keep at sth
- keep on doing sth
- keep on trucking idiom
- keep sb at it idiom
- keep sth up
- nine
- push
- run over (sth)
- see sth out
- segue
- soldier on
- spill
- stick
- string
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