"\u2014 usually used with without I kept an eye upon her without cease \u2014 R. L. Stevenson"
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": to bring an activity or action to an end : discontinue":[
"they have been ordered to cease and desist"
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"the fighting gradually ceased"
]
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"Verb",
"The fighting along the border has temporarily ceased .",
"The factory ceased operations last year.",
"The child would not cease his constant whining.",
"Noun",
"worked without cease for the betterment of humanity",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"At risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"At risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 9 May 2022",
"After all, without them, the company would not have money coming in and would essentially cease to exist. \u2014 Patrick Stokes, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"Those shares would then be canceled and cease to exist. \u2014 CBS News , 28 Apr. 2022",
"PlayStation Now will then cease to exist as an independent service. \u2014 PCMAG , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Given that, the idea that literary magazines will simply cease to exist is not one that Schappell buys. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
"But that testing will also cease to exist this summer without additional financial support. \u2014 Andrew Brown, courant.com , 20 Jan. 2022",
"As Ronnie sees it, if the mineral plant loses its water, so does Trona, and their home for 35 years would cease to exist. :: Water wars are central to the history of the American West. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the devastated city of Severodonetsk, a complete cease -fire is needed to facilitate the evacuation of 568 people trapped in a chemical plant, regional authorities said. \u2014 Amy Cheng, Washington Post , 18 June 2022",
"That\u2019s the only way to get Mr. Putin to the negotiating table with any hope of a cease -fire on Ukrainian terms favorable to NATO. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"And many in Europe are eager to find a way, even if a temporary cease -fire, to get Ukrainian grain and foodstuffs back into the world market. \u2014 Steven Erlanger, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Whether there will be any talk of a cease -fire or negotiations is unclear. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"One pity is that NATO countries did not assert some dominance early in the crisis, say, by escrowing Russia\u2019s energy revenues contingent on a cease -fire. \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"United Nations Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres reiterated the need for an immediate cease -fire, urging both sides to resolve the conflict via diplomacy. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
"At the time, the talks established what those in attendance in Compton described as more of a temporary cease -fire than a long-term truce. \u2014 James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"However, both sides have at times accused the other of violating the cease -fire. \u2014 Noha Elhennawy, ajc , 2 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
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"Middle English cesen , from Anglo-French cesser , from Latin cessare to hold back, be remiss, frequentative of cedere":"Verb and Noun"
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"\u02c8s\u0113s"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for cease Verb stop , cease , quit , discontinue , desist mean to suspend or cause to suspend activity. stop applies to action or progress or to what is operating or progressing and may imply suddenness or definiteness. stopped at the red light cease applies to states, conditions, or existence and may add a suggestion of gradualness and a degree of finality. by nightfall the fighting had ceased quit may stress either finality or abruptness in stopping or ceasing. the engine faltered, sputtered, then quit altogether discontinue applies to the stopping of an accustomed activity or practice. we have discontinued the manufacture of that item desist implies forbearance or restraint as a motive for stopping or ceasing. desisted from further efforts to persuade them",
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"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
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"ceaseless":{
"antonyms":[
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous"
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": continuing without cease : constant":[
"ceaseless efforts"
]
},
"examples":[
"her ceaseless efforts to build and improve the business",
"there has been ceaseless rain for three days",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The image that emerges from the Drawing Center show is one of ceaseless intermixture resulting in endless variation of form. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"An urban battle defined by ceaseless shelling can shift quickly as one side\u2019s firepower temporarily overwhelms the other\u2019s. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"In Longyearbyen, roughly 40 plumbers and electricians are needed to help the 2,500 residents handle the harsh environment in months of ceaseless dark and endless sunlight. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"Watching ceaseless gun violence on the news moved Junior\u2019s third-generation owner, Alan Rosen, to action. \u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"The two clubs have spent all this season writing the most recent chapter in the ceaseless tale of this rivalry, going head-to-head for a Serie A title that seemingly nobody wanted to win. \u2014 Adam Digby, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"We are divided by class, race, and gender and united only in being the objects of a ceaseless corporate effort to accomplish our commodification. \u2014 Chris Lehmann, The New Republic , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But before the scar is fully formed (almost always within two weeks of the heart attack), the dead muscle is weak and can potentially rupture under the ceaseless work and constant pressure of the heart. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Largely as a result of the ceaseless war, energy experts expect oil prices to stay high for a while without big interventions like the U.S. reserve release. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"1576, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8s\u0113s-l\u0259s"
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"her ceaseless efforts to build and improve the business",
"there has been ceaseless rain for three days",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The image that emerges from the Drawing Center show is one of ceaseless intermixture resulting in endless variation of form. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"An urban battle defined by ceaseless shelling can shift quickly as one side\u2019s firepower temporarily overwhelms the other\u2019s. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"In Longyearbyen, roughly 40 plumbers and electricians are needed to help the 2,500 residents handle the harsh environment in months of ceaseless dark and endless sunlight. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"Watching ceaseless gun violence on the news moved Junior\u2019s third-generation owner, Alan Rosen, to action. \u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"The two clubs have spent all this season writing the most recent chapter in the ceaseless tale of this rivalry, going head-to-head for a Serie A title that seemingly nobody wanted to win. \u2014 Adam Digby, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"We are divided by class, race, and gender and united only in being the objects of a ceaseless corporate effort to accomplish our commodification. \u2014 Chris Lehmann, The New Republic , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But before the scar is fully formed (almost always within two weeks of the heart attack), the dead muscle is weak and can potentially rupture under the ceaseless work and constant pressure of the heart. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Largely as a result of the ceaseless war, energy experts expect oil prices to stay high for a while without big interventions like the U.S. reserve release. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"1576, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": an order from an administrative agency to refrain from a method of competition or a labor practice found by the agency to be unfair":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"A cease and desist order was issued by the state.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In addition to the $7 million penalty, Wells Fargo Advisors, without admitting or denying the SEC\u2019s findings, agreed to a censure and a cease and desist order . \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 20 May 2022",
"An organization that provides food for individuals experiencing homelessness received a cease and desist order from the city of Santa Cruz. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Federal education officials filed a complaint with the agency's Office of Administrative Law Judges seeking a cease and desist order against Florida, as well as a ruling that the state is in violation of federal law. \u2014 Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Tre Siggers issued a cease and desist order to his former teammates at North Texas. \u2014 Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Auerfarm, the Bloomfield farm where the festival was slated to be held, was served with a cease and desist order from the town\u2019s Department of Planning and Zoning. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 2 July 2021",
"The Fed then filed a cease and desist order , laying out steps the bank needed to take to improve its security, while the Office of the Comptroller of Currency filed an $80 million civil penalty against the bank. \u2014 Moira Ritter, CNN , 30 June 2021",
"Ohio State also banned the therapist from campus and locations where students live and served her a cease and desist order pertaining to future contact with students, coaches or staff. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 13 May 2021",
"Although a cease and desist order was issued, state agencies can't enforce those orders. \u2014 Jessica Boehm, The Arizona Republic , 26 Mar. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1914, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163523"
},
"cease-fire":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a suspension of active hostilities":[]
},
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"\u02c8s\u0113s-\u02c8fi(-\u0259)r"
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"truce"
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"first_known_use":{
"1844, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025117"
},
"cease and desist":{
"type":[
"idiom"
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"The company was ordered by the court to cease and desist from selling the photographs."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051120"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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"ceaseless efforts"
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"her ceaseless efforts to build and improve the business",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The image that emerges from the Drawing Center show is one of ceaseless intermixture resulting in endless variation of form. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"An urban battle defined by ceaseless shelling can shift quickly as one side\u2019s firepower temporarily overwhelms the other\u2019s. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"In Longyearbyen, roughly 40 plumbers and electricians are needed to help the 2,500 residents handle the harsh environment in months of ceaseless dark and endless sunlight. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"Watching ceaseless gun violence on the news moved Junior\u2019s third-generation owner, Alan Rosen, to action. \u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"The two clubs have spent all this season writing the most recent chapter in the ceaseless tale of this rivalry, going head-to-head for a Serie A title that seemingly nobody wanted to win. \u2014 Adam Digby, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"We are divided by class, race, and gender and united only in being the objects of a ceaseless corporate effort to accomplish our commodification. \u2014 Chris Lehmann, The New Republic , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But before the scar is fully formed (almost always within two weeks of the heart attack), the dead muscle is weak and can potentially rupture under the ceaseless work and constant pressure of the heart. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Largely as a result of the ceaseless war, energy experts expect oil prices to stay high for a while without big interventions like the U.S. reserve release. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"1576, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070406"
},
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": any of a genus ( Ceanothus ) of American vines, shrubs, and small trees of the buckthorn family having the calyx disk adherent to the ovary":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s a California lilac \u2014 not the true syringa lilac of rhapsodic song and poetry but a ceanothus . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Aside from poppies, bush sunflowers, wooly blue curls, lupine, black sage, ceanothus and other plants are popping along trails in the Santa Monica Mountains. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Late summer brought a squadron of swallowtail butterflies that seemed to prefer feeding on the leathery leaves of ceanothus while nearby the busy skipper butterflies focused on clusters of wildflowers closer to the ground. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Nov. 2020",
"This sale features drought-tolerant Southwestern, California native and Australian plants \u2014 including ceanothus , tecoma, manzanita and westringia \u2014 as well as cactuses, succulents, tomato and vegetable seedlings, fruit trees and herbs. \u2014 Jeanette Marantos, latimes.com , 22 Mar. 2018"
],
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"1785, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-103944"
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],
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": wild rubber obtained from any of certain South American trees of the genus Manihot (especially M. glaziovii )":[]
