All 4 Uses of
cease
in
Lucky, by Sebold
- Convinced it would destroy her, I ceased thinking of what had happened to me and worried about her instead.†
Chpt 1 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- 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.†
Chpt 10ceaselessly = in a manner that does not stopstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- When I said his name, the uniforms ceased restraining me.†
Chpt 13ceased = stopped or discontinued
- We had never been best friends and now we would cease even to be acquaintances.†
Chpt 13cease = 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.