All 12 Uses of
cease
in
1984 by Orwell
- Within twenty years at the most, he reflected, the huge and simple question, 'Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?' would have ceased once and for all to be answerable.
p. 93..1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- With Julia he felt no difficulty in talking about such things: Katharine, in any case, had long ceased to be a painful memory and became merely a distasteful one.
p. 132..5
- Syme had ceased to exist: he had never existed.
p. 147..9
- The process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice.
p. 150..4
- In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist.
p. 193..4
- But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.
p. 198..3ceases = stops or discontinues
- Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded.
p. 198..4cease = stop or discontinue
- It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist.
p. 199..6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- He had ceased to notice whether he was crying out or not.
p. 251..5
- The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
p. 264..4ceases = stops or discontinues
- The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease.
p. 268..3cease = stop or discontinue
- Probably you have ceased to notice it.
p. 272..3 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue