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  • They sent a cease and desist letter to stop the noise.
    cease = discontinue or stop
  • I said to myself, Will wonders never cease?  (source)
    cease = stop
  • Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.  (source)
    cease = discontinue
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  • When the simum ceased to blow, everyone looked to the place where the boy had been.  (source)
    ceased = discontinued (stopped)
  • Jem explained that if he did, the snowman would become muddy and cease to be a snowman.  (source)
    cease = discontinue
  • That, and the ceaseless, remorseless blue of ocean.†  (source)
    ceaseless = never-ending
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
  • The chemical reaction occurs at the time the drowning victim is ceasing to breathe.†  (source)
    ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
  • Conversation abruptly ceases.  (source)
    ceases = stops
  • Beyond lay the sea, misty and purple, with its haunting, unceasing murmur.  (source)
    unceasing = never stopping
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unceasing means not and reverses the meaning of ceasing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I had been smiling ceaselessly since he came through the door.†  (source)
    ceaselessly = in a manner that does not stop
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
  • Truly, meseemeth, said Tristram, that he putteth himself in great pain, for he never ceaseth.†  (source)
    ceaseth = stops or discontinues
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She ceaseth" in older English, today we say "She ceases."
  • So spake he, and Diomedes sprang swiftly up out of sleep, and spake to him winged words: "Hard art thou, old man, and from toil thou never ceasest.†  (source)
    ceasest = stop or discontinue
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou ceasest" in older English, today we say "You cease."
  • It was the ceaselessness of the work which tried her so severely, and began to make her wish that she had never some to Flintcomb-Ash.†  (source)
    ceaselessness = the condition of continuing or seeming to continue without end
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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