All 5 Uses of
cease
in
The Time Machine
- After a time we ceased to do that, and looked only at the Time Traveller's face.†
Chpt 2 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The difficulty of increasing population had been met, I guessed, and population had ceased to increase.†
Chpt 4
- The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.†
Chpt 5
- When I saw them I ceased abruptly to trouble about the Morlocks, and was only concerned in banishing these signs of the human inheritance from Weena's eyes.†
Chpt 5
- The band of light that had indicated the sun had long since disappeared; for the sun had ceased to set—it simply rose and fell in the west, and grew ever broader and more red.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.