cease
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(noun) (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end |
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Related Words: end, ending |
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(verb) bring to a conclusion or cause to come to an end; "We terminated our relation with the company"; "It is unclear whether the bombing of Hiroshima ended the war"; "Cease doing what you are doing!" |
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Synonyms: end, terminate |
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Related Words: alter, change, close out, conclude, halt |
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(verb) put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" |
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Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
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Related Words: break, cheese, close off, drop, knock off, retire, shut off, sign off, withdraw |
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(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense: "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
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Synonyms: end, finish, terminate |
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Related Words: adjourn, break, break up, climax, close, come out, culminate, cut out, die hard, disappear, discontinue, end up, fetch up, finish up, go, go away, go out, land up, lapse, pass away, recess, run low, run short, turn out, vanish, wind up |
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