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According to the treaty, all offensive military action will cease at midnight.cease = stop
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They signed a cease-fire agreement.cease = to stop or discontinue (in this case, to stop firing weapons at each other)
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The injunction requires that they cease all activity on the site.cease = stop
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They sent a cease and desist letter to stop the noise.cease = discontinue or stop
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I said to myself, Will wonders never cease? (source)cease = stop
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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)
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Jem explained that if he did, the snowman would become muddy and cease to be a snowman. (source)cease = discontinue
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That, and the ceaseless, remorseless blue of ocean.† (source)ceaseless = never-endingstandard 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.
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The chemical reaction occurs at the time the drowning victim is ceasing to breathe.† (source)ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
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Conversation abruptly ceases. (source)ceases = stops
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Beyond lay the sea, misty and purple, with its haunting, unceasing murmur. (source)unceasing = never stoppingstandard 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.
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I had been smiling ceaselessly since he came through the door.† (source)ceaselessly = in a manner that does not stopstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
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Truly, meseemeth, said Tristram, that he putteth himself in great pain, for he never ceaseth.† (source)ceaseth = stops or discontinuesstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She ceaseth" in older English, today we say "She ceases."
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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 discontinuestandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou ceasest" in older English, today we say "You cease."
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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 endstandard 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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