All 14 Uses of
cease
in
Childhood's End
- He had ceased to wonder if the action was wise,
Chpt 2 *ceased = stopped
- That transfer in the tunnel was ingenious, but when the first car ceased to react it gave the plan away and I soon located you again.†
Chpt 3ceased = stopped or discontinued
- I found it very valuable in the early days of my administration, but now that the world is moving along the lines that I planned, it can cease.†
Chpt 4cease = stop or discontinue
- Ignorance, disease, poverty and fear had virtually ceased to exist.†
Chpt 6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The cities that had been good enough for earlier generations had been rebuilt-or deserted and left as museum specimens when they had ceased to serve any useful purpose.†
Chpt 6
- The Overlords had imposed few positive bans on any form of human activity (the conduct of war was perhaps the major exception), but research into space flight had virtually ceased.†
Chpt 8
- He threw a set of switches, and the submarine came to rest in a gentle surge of deceleraion as the jets ceased their thrust.†
Chpt 11
- Whatever irregularities they might once have possessed had long ago been obliterated by the ceaseless rain from the watery heights above.†
Chpt 11ceaseless = 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.
- Even here in mid-Pacific, far from the great estuaries that slowly swept the continents out to sea, that rain never ceased.†
Chpt 11ceased = stopped or discontinued
- It was another month, however, before Jean ceased to pine for the car, and discovered all the things one could do with one's own kitchen.†
Chpt 15
- They called Rupert with fresh excuses several times a year, and lately he bad ceased to bother them.†
Chpt 16
- After the first day, the islanders ceased to pay much attention when the official car murmured past on its sightseeing tours.†
Chpt 17
- The rattling had ceased, and the discarded toy lay on the nursery floor where no-one dared to touch it, lest Jennifer Anne might need it again.†
Chpt 19
- When it cleared, the movement below had ceased.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
to stop or discontinue