All 5 Uses of
cease
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
- …of that house where he had come so close to knowing what it was to die… to die… the pain was so terrible… ripped from his body… But if he had no body, why did his head hurt so badly; if he was dead, how cold he feel so unbearably, didn't pain cease with death, didn't it go… The night wet and windy, two children dressed as pumpkins waddling across the square and the shop windows covered in paper spiders, all the tawdry Muggle trappings of a world in which they did not believe… And he…†
Chpt 17
- Ron ceased his tapping at once.†
Chpt 20 *
- "Okay," he called to the room at large, and all noise ceased: Fred and George, who had been cracking jokes for the benefit of those nearest, fell silent, and all of the looked alert, excited.†
Chpt 29
- Chapter Thirty-Two The Elder Wand The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?†
Chpt 32
- You wish the battle to cease so that you can discover what has happened to your son.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue