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Definition
to stop or discontinue
- Convinced it would destroy her, I ceased thinking of what had happened to me and worried about her instead.Chapter One (70% in)
- I didn't want to be a dried-up old woman, or become a nun, or live in the house of my parents and stare at the wall ceaselessly.Chapter Ten (65% in)
- When I said his name, the uniforms ceased restraining me.Chapter Thirteen (7% in)
- We had never been best friends and now we would cease even to be acquaintances.Chapter Thirteen (63% in)
There are no more uses of "cease" in Lucky by Sebold.
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