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cease
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After the First Death
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I had a feeling he wasn't my father at all, that my father had ceased to exist and an actor was taking his place, an old actor like Gregory Peck on old television movies.†
Part 1

ceased = stopped or discontinued
As abruptly as the sound and movement began, so did it cease.†
Part 4 *

cease = stop or discontinue
They ceased to have identities.†
Part 6

ceased = stopped or discontinued
At the moment you left my office, you had ceased to exist in the minds of those at Inner Delta as my son.†
Part 9
And I know it was necessary that you had to cease to exist as my son to me for the duration of the emergency.†
Part 9

cease = stop or discontinue

Definitions:

(1) (cease)
to stop or discontinue
(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.