All 3 Uses of
cease
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- How Celine managed to work her way into the lives of such powerful people never ceased to amaze Bethany.†
Chpt 2 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- She fought for less than ten seconds before her voluntary muscles ceased all function and she lay still.†
Chpt 16
- Ryan's mind snapped back to the child, back to his daughter, and for the moment the house ceased to exist.†
Chpt 38
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.