All 3 Uses of
cease
in
The 100, by Morgan
- Wells avoided his father's gaze by glancing around the room, trying to memorize the relics he might be seeing for the last time: the eagle skeleton perched in a glass case, the few paintings that had survived the burning of the Louvre, and the photos of the beautiful dead cities whose names never ceased to send chills down Wells's spine.†
p. 10.2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- No matter how many times she heard the words, they never ceased to make her shiver.†
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- The muttering ceased as Octavia's voice cracked.†
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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.