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to stop or discontinue
- He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.p. 169.9
cease = discontinue
- The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence.p. 21.6
- 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
- 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. 170.3
- Abruptly the tramping ceased.p. 196.9
- 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. 202.4
- 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. 243.8
ceased = stopped
ceased = stopped
ceased = stopped
ceased = discontinued
ceased = stopped
ceased = discontinued
ceased = discontinued
ceaselessly = continuously
(Editor's note: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.)
(Editor's note: 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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