Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cease
Participle: ceased
Gerund: ceasing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | cease |
| you | cease |
| he;she;it | ceases |
| we | cease |
| you | cease |
| they | cease |
Perfect
| I | have ceased |
| you | have ceased |
| he;she;it | has ceased |
| we | have ceased |
| you | have ceased |
| they | have ceased |
Past
| I | ceased |
| you | ceased |
| he;she;it | ceased |
| we | ceased |
| you | ceased |
| they | ceased |
Pluperfect
| I | had ceased |
| you | had ceased |
| he;she;it | had ceased |
| we | had ceased |
| you | had ceased |
| they | had ceased |
Future
| I | will cease |
| you | will cease |
| he;she;it | will cease |
| we | will cease |
| you | will cease |
| they | will cease |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ceased |
| you | will have ceased |
| he;she;it | will have ceased |
| we | will have ceased |
| you | will have ceased |
| they | will have ceased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cease |
| you | cease |
| he;she;it | cease |
| we | cease |
| you | cease |
| they | cease |
Perfect
| I | have ceased |
| you | have ceased |
| he;she;it | have ceased |
| we | have ceased |
| you | have ceased |
| they | have ceased |
Imperfect
| I | ceased |
| you | ceased |
| he;she;it | ceased |
| we | ceased |
| you | ceased |
| they | ceased |
Pluperfect
| I | had ceased |
| you | had ceased |
| he;she;it | had ceased |
| we | had ceased |
| you | had ceased |
| they | had ceased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cease |
| you | would cease |
| he;she;it | would cease |
| we | would cease |
| you | would cease |
| they | would cease |
Perfect
| I | would have ceased |
| you | would have ceased |
| he;she;it | would have ceased |
| we | would have ceased |
| you | would have ceased |
| they | would have ceased |
Imperative
| you | cease |
| we | Let's cease |
| you | cease |
Verbs conjugated like 'cease'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cease'
case,
cense,
chase,
crase,
crease,
ease,
fease,
lease,
pease,
tease,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to stop
- anchor, halt, end, stop
- to stop doing
- desist
- to cease to proceed or act
- absist, belay, blin, break off, cess, cheese it, come to an end, desist, discontinue, forbear, halt, have done with, hold, leave off, let up, rest, stanch, staunch, stay, stop, surcease, terminate
- to cease moving; to come to a stand or standstill
- anchor, astand, blin, brake, draw up, grind to a halt, halt, hold, stall, stay, stop
- stop
- desist, interrupt, quit, pause, refrain, suspend, stay
- terminate
- culminate, disappear, end, halt, vanish, discontinue, suppress
Antonyms
- to persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking
- desist, give up, quit, stop, surrender, persevere, yield
- to have being or reality
- exist, unexist, void
- stop
- start, initiate, open, proceed
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.Fr.
cesser, from L.
cessare "to cease, go slow," frequentative of
cedere "go away, withdraw, yield" (see cede). Replaced O.E.
geswican, and
blinnan. Cease-fire "armistice" is from 1918.
2. Etymology tree
3. Latin cēdō
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
5. Proto-Italic *-tos
6. Latin -tus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
12. Proto-Italic *-ājō
13. Proto-Italic *-āō
14. Latin -ō
15. Latin -tō
16. Latin cessōder.
17. Middle French cesserbor.
18. Middle English cesen
19. English cease
20. 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. See: Middle French '
cesser', Latin '
cessō'.
Verbs referencing "cease"
Ido cesar.
Sample Sentences
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To one unaccustomed to such scenes, this is a very striking time on shipboard. Afterwards, and when its novelty had long worn off, it never ceased to have a peculiar interest and charm for me. The gloom through which the great black mass holds its direct and certain course; the rushing water, plainly heard, but dimly seen; the broad, white, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] street, shaking its sides like a corpulent giant, a kind of barge on wheels. After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] She opened her eyes in a state of dreamy, delicious languor, such as one who has long been bearing a heavy load, and now feels it gone, and would rest. The tension of the nerves, which had never ceased a moment since the first hour of her flight, had given way, and a strange feeling of security and rest came over her; and as she lay, with her large, dark eyes open, she followed, as in a quiet [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] before he died; and spoke with much interest about the great things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to be, thousands of years ago, he was very attentive, and it was not hard to see that he had a reference in his mind to the gradual fading away of his own people.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] her, giving a long account of a persecution to which she had been exposed by her guardian's family, to lead her to unite herself with their son: and she related how, for a long time, his letters had ceased to arrive; how she had written time and again, till she became weary and doubtful; how her health had failed under her anxieties, and how, at last, she had discovered the whole fraud which had been [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] great thoughts of Eternal Rest and Happiness: nothing of gloom or terror. Niagara was at once stamped upon my heart, an Image of Beauty; to remain there, changeless and indelible, until its pulses cease to beat, for ever.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Mrs. Shelby ceased talking, with something of a sigh. The fact was, that though her husband had stated she was a woman, she had a clear, energetic, practical mind, and a force of character every way superior to that [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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In that book which she and her simple old friend had read so much together, she had seen and taken to her young heart the image of one who loved the little child; and, as she gazed and mused, He had ceased to be an image and a picture of the distant past, and come to be a living, all-surrounding reality. His love enfolded her childish heart with more than mortal tenderness; and it was to Him, she [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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When Tom ceased to speak, St. Clare reached out and took his hand, looking earnestly at him, but saying nothing. He closed his eyes, but still retained his hold; for, in the gates of eternity, the black hand and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ The earth shall be dissolved like snow, The sun shall cease to shine; But God, who called me here below, Shall be forever mine.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)