All 9 Uses of
cease
in
Brave New World
- The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence.
p. 21..6ceased = stopped
- The singing of the girls over their test-tubes, the preoccupied whistling of the Microscopists, suddenly ceased.
p. 148..9
- He lifted a hand to his mouth; the titillation ceased; let his hand fall back on the metal knob; it began again.
p. 168..3
- He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
p. 169..9 *cease = discontinue
- Bound by strong vows that had never been pronounced, obedient to laws that had long since ceased to run, he sat averted and in silence.
p. 170..3ceased = discontinued
- Abruptly the tramping ceased.
p. 196..9ceased = stopped
- They had never seen a face like hers before–had never seen a face that was not youthful and taut-skinned, a body that had ceased to be slim and upright.
p. 202..4ceased = discontinued
- Her hands went to her throat, then clawed at the air–the air she could no longer breathe, the air that, for her, had ceased to exist.
p. 205..7
- It was over Selborne, Bordon and Farnham that the helicopters now ceaselessly hummed and roared.
p. 243..8ceaselessly = continuouslystandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue