Both Uses
cease
in
The Thief, by Turner
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- I noticed that I had ceased to be "Gen" and returned to being a kind of unreliable animal, like a cow that's prone to wandering away.†
Chpt 7 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- It was as if a giant tap somewhere had been turned by the gods, and our ears, which had ceased to register the sound of water, were now pounded by the silence of no water at all.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(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.