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    [Verb]  | "cease" | \ ˈsēs \


    1: to cause to come to an end especially gradually : no longer continue

    2: to come to an end

    3: to bring an activity or action to an end : discontinue


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English cesen, from Anglo-French cesser, from Latin cessare to hold back, be remiss, frequentative of cedere;

    [Verb]  | "ceasing" 


    1: to come to an end;


      * e.g., " ... the rain finally ceased, and we were able to continue the baseball game "





    2: to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end;


      * e.g., " ... cease chattering and get down to work, please "



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    [Verb]  | "cease" 


    1: to come to an end;


      * e.g., " ... the rain finally ceased, and we were able to continue the baseball game "





    2: to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end;


      * e.g., " ... cease chattering and get down to work, please "



    •  Antonyms : 

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     [ "cease" ]

    1: To stop, to end, to finish.

      * e.g.,  ... Bad definitions never cease to amaze. 

     [ "Ceased" ]

    1: Unendlessly Amazed.

      * e.g.,  ... I am ceased by her stupidity. 

     [ "Cease" ]

    1: General exclamation of agreement or approval.

      * e.g.,  ... "Man... Check it out. Kevin's passed out and I'm totally gonna bust ass on his face!" 


     [ "Cease" ]

    2: Can be used interchangably with words like "Yes!", "Sweet!" and "I couldn't agree with you more heartily, old chap!"

      * e.g.,  ... "Fat cease!" 


     [ "Cease" ]

    3: May be augmented by prefacing the word with "Fat", "Oh", "Tohp" or the untoppable "Oh doh tohp"

     [ "Cease" ]

    1:  Stop

      * e.g.,  ... Stop, or cease to live, cease means stop btw, btw means by the way, not Big Thicc Wamon 


     [ "Cease" ]

    2:  A threat to make people cease living or there existence.

     [ "cease" ]

    1: Puts and end to everything. can be used to torture other . brought out as a phrase in great ayton mostly by Spunky, daley, berny etc and people who go in the oak.

      * e.g.,  ... Spunky "i am the worlds greatest cricketer" 

     [ "cease and desist" ]

    1: when a large corporation contacts you with the direct instructions to stop doing something and not do it again. generally because they have legal rights to object you are copying or distributing.

      * e.g.,  ... letters sent to suprnova.org and many other bit torrent sites hosting torrents of copyrighted material. 

     [ "cease and desist" ]

    1: A legal term literally meaning, "stop what(ever) your doing and don't do it again." Hence, "cease" meaning to "stop," and "desist" meaning to "not do again in the future." Usually used by a person or party against another person or party when they are doing something that they find: offensive, strange, violating, embarrassing, shady, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... cease and desist cease & desist back off stop cease desist legal 

     [ "Cease and Desist" ]

    1: I mean, you'd think I would have gotten one of these... Right? Like, if what I've done here was so horrible someone would have taken legal action and I would have gotten something in the mail or an email or something... Right? Like... Is that not a strange thing?

      * e.g.,  ... Hym "I mean, you'd think I would have gotten a cease and desist or something, right? I mean, can you imagine a guy DOING THIS and the just... nothing? NOTHING happens!? Why is that the case!? Really! I mean, the quality of television and movies radically improved but that's like THE OPPOSITE of what you'd think would happen, isn't it? How am I the only one baffled here? Imagine explain this to someone. What is the first question they would ask? You go into detail about everything I've done and what do you think they would ask? 'Well, what happened?' NOTHING! NOTHING HAPPENED. Well, nothing that wasn't ALREADY HAPPENING. And then they would give you some confused look and you'd be all 'Yeah, crazy right?' I do see how this is a thing that is happening and the fact that the people around me are in no way amenable to reason is something that should be disconcerting to everyone.: 

     [ "cease si" ]

    1: To kill a black man.

      * e.g.,  ... CEASE SI HERDME! (I just killed a nigger, shall we begin to party?) 

     [ "cease-fire" ]

    1: the girl says yes until it comes down to battle then she backs out

      * e.g.,  ... I was ready to nail Connie until she initiated a cease-fire. I had to go rub one off. 

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