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cease

verb
/sis/US/siːs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”). Compare secede.

  1. derived from cessō
  2. derived from cesser
  3. derived from cesen

Definitions

  1. To stop.

    • And with that, his twitching ceased.
    • After a short while, it ceased to rain.

  2. To stop doing (something).

    • And with that, he ceased twitching.

  3. To be wanting

    To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.

    • The poor shall never cease out of the land.
    • [...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;
    • ’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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Cessation

      Cessation; extinction (see without cease).

      • the cease of majesty

    2. A surname from German.

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Derived

cease and desist, ceasefire, ceaseless, ceaser, unceasable, unceased, unceasing, without cease, wonders never cease

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cease. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cease. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at cease

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA