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Definition

to stop or discontinue

Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.

They signed a cease-fire agreement.

cease = to stop or discontinue (in this case, to stop firing weapons at each other)

They sent a cease and desist letter to stop the noise.
Chains cease to be needed after the spirit has gone out of a prisoner.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

cease = discontinue

For one, I will never cease the search till she be found.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

cease = discontinue (stop)

Her face turns ashen and she seems to have ceased breathing.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

ceased = stopped

Doyle let the firing continue for a long time before calling out for us to cease fire.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

cease = stop or discontinue

The Radley Place had ceased to terrify me, but it was no less gloomy, no less chilly under its great oaks, and no less uninviting.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

ceased = no longer had the effect

He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

ceased = stopped

...the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

ceased = discontinued (stopped)

The Kapos beat us once more, but I had ceased to feel any pain from their blows.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

ceased = stopped

Things become quieter, but the cries do not cease.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

cease = stopped

He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

cease = discontinue

I said to myself, Will wonders never cease?
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

cease = stop

When it comes to my feelings, Mother and Margot ceased to count long ago.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

ceased = stopped

All eyes are on your beauty until you set,
All labor ceases when you rest in the west;
Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) -- The Great Hymn to the Aten

ceases = stops

But Nancy sat quite still, only that her eyes dropped and ceased to meet his.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner

ceased = stopped or discontinued

I answered that it had ceased to be a private matter, but had become a public one,
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

ceased = stopped

In the night the rain ceased and he woke and lay listening.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

ceased = stopped or discontinued

At last they ceased to trouble his thoughts almost wholly.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper

ceased = discontinued (stopped)

And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

cease = stop or discontinue

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