Overview of noun cease

The noun cease has 1 sense

• cease -- ((`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end)

Overview of verb cease

The verb cease has 2 senses

• discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off -- (put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother")


• end, stop, finish, terminate, 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")