All 4 Uses of
cease
in
In Cold Blood
- At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign-dance-but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years.†
Chpt 1 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- December replaced November, and those investigating the case remained, according to increasingly brief newspaper reports (radio newscasters had ceased to mention the subject), as bewildered, as virtually clueless, as they had been the morning of the tragic discovery.†
Chpt 3
- Phantoms or not, he ceased to think of the young men.†
Chpt 4
- But Perry wouldn't answer him, and the warden, who on several occasions had visited the hospital and tried to persuade the prisoner to cease his fast, said, "I have something here.†
Chpt 4cease = stop or discontinue
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.