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ceased

/sees/US // sis //UK // (siːs) //

停止了,停止了的,已停止的,终止了

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ceased, ceas·ing.

    • : to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
    • : to come to an end: At last the war has ceased.
    • : Obsolete. to pass away; die out.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ceased, ceas·ing.

    • : to put a stop or end to; discontinue: He begged them to cease their quarreling.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : cessation: The noise of the drilling went on for hours without cease.

Phrases

  • cease and desist
  • wonders will never cease

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbstop, conclude

Examples

  • The judge went further and enjoined the county from both enforcing its cease and desist order against the strip clubs and businesses with restaurant services.

  • Without a near-total cease in carbon pollution, our climate won’t stop warming.

  • Many of those who have become cops in New York seem to have ceased to address such minor offenses over the past few days.

  • This concern ceased after the Spanish warned of severe punitive measures on the family members of suicides.

  • The pair had argued, and the assistant ceased performing this most onerous of duties.

  • It is entirely possible for some of these mechanisms to be functioning while others have ceased.

  • When one major operation, dubbed Arrowhead Ripper, concluded in mid-August, most insurgent activity in the area had ceased.

  • The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.

  • We can imagine that, as soon as a printed book ceased to be a great rarity, it became an object of great abhorrence.

  • People have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned things called books, but even to read them!

  • The old owl no longer hooted, and the water-oaks had ceased to moan as they bent their heads.

  • Like many other Yankee notions, it did not thrive here, and the humming of those bees soon ceased.