v. i. | 1. | To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; |
2. | To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. | |
v. t. | 1. | To put a stop to; to bring to an end. |
n. | 1. | Extinction. |
Noun | 1. | cease - (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end |
Verb | 1. | cease - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" |
2. | cease - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |