Cease: alternatives and connections

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of…

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A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

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Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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To shut up; to inclose.

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Alt. of Crayfish

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To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

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To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the appr…

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To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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Gone.

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To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…

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A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to que…

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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

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To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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of Split

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To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a shi…

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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.

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A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.

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Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

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Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

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Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

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Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

Cease overlaps with end, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

Cease means stop an activity or state, often formally.