Etymology
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From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”).
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cease (third-person singular simple present ceases, present participle ceasing, simple past and past participle ceased)
- (formal, intransitive) To stop.
- Synonyms: discontinue, hold, terminate; see also Thesaurus:end, Thesaurus:stop
And with that, his twitching ceased.
- (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
- Synonyms: arrest, discontinue; see also Thesaurus:desist
And with that, he ceased twitching.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
- Synonyms: desert, lack
1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 159-161:[...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXIV, page 53:’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
Like birds the charming serpent draws,
To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.
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intransitive
- Bulgarian: спирам (bg) (spiram), преставам (bg) (prestavam), прекратявам (bg) (prekratjavam)
- Catalan: cessar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 停止 (zh) (tíngzhǐ), 停 (zh) (tíng)
- Cornish: hedhi
- Czech: skončit (cs)
- Danish: ophøre (da)
- Esperanto: ĉesi (eo)
- Finnish: loppua (fi), päättyä (fi), lakata (fi)
- French: cesser (fr), s’arrêter (fr)
- German: aufhören (de)
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (sweiban)
- Hungarian: abbamarad (hu), megszűnik (hu)
- Italian: cessare (it), arrestare (it), smettere (it), interrompere (it)
- Japanese: 止む (ja) (やむ, yamu)
- Korean: 그치다 (ko) (geuchida), 중지하다 (jungjihada)
- Macedonian: престанува impf (prestanuva), престане pf (prestane)
- Malayalam: നിൽക്കുക (ml) (nilkkuka)
- Maori: tāhaohao (of rain), mutu, nanape, pārirā (of wind)
- Nahuatl: caua, cacauantoc
- Norman: cêssi
- Northern Ohlone: júwa
- Occitan: cessar (oc)
- Persian: متوقف شدن (fa)
- Polish: zaprzestać (pl)
- Portuguese: cessar (pt)
- Romanian: înceta (ro), conteni (ro), opri (ro)
- Russian: прекраща́ться (ru) impf (prekraščátʹsja), прекрати́ться (ru) pf (prekratítʹsja)
- Slovak: prestať, zastaviť sa
- Spanish: cesar (es), parar (es), terminar (es)
- Swedish: upphöra (sv)
- Tagalog: (literally) hinto
- Tocharian B: ār-
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transitive
- Arabic: زَالَ (zāla)
- Catalan: cessar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 停止 (zh) (tíngzhǐ)
- Cornish: hedhi
- Czech: přestat (cs), ukončit (cs), skončit (cs), zastavit (cs)
- Danish: ophøre (da)
- Dutch: ophouden (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉesigi
- Finnish: lopettaa (fi), päättää (fi), lakata (fi)
- French: cesser (fr) de + infinitive, arrêter (fr) de + infinitive
- German: aufhören (de), einstellen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gananþjan)
- Hebrew: חדל (he) (khadál)
- Hungarian: abbahagy (hu), befejez (hu), beszüntet (hu)
- Ido: cesar (io)
- Italian: cessare (it), smettere di (it)
- Japanese: 止める (ja) (とめる, tomeru, やめる, yameru)
- Korean: 그치다 (ko) (geuchida)
- Malayalam: നിർത്തുക (ml) (niṟttuka)
- Maori: kāti, whakamutu, whakaoti
- Ngazidja Comorian: urantsi
- Norman: cêssi de
- Portuguese: parar (pt)
- Romanian: întrerupe (ro)
- Russian: прекраща́ть (ru) impf (prekraščátʹ), прекрати́ть (ru) pf (prekratítʹ), перестава́ть (ru) impf (perestavátʹ), переста́ть (ru) pf (perestátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: leig seachad
- Slovak: prestať, zastaviť
- Spanish: dejar de (es)
- Swahili: kuacha (sw)
- Swedish: upphöra med (sv)
- Turkish: durmak (tr), durdurmak (tr)
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cease
- (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:the cease of majesty
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