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Definition of ceasing : of Cease

Synonyms:

completing, capping, exiting, deceasing, finalizing, expiring, winding up, finishing, checkmating, concluding, passing away, wrapping up, accomplishing, dying, passing on

parting, falling, passing, perishing, succumbing, departing

relinquishing, surrendering, withdrawing, resigning, giving up

disclaiming, rejecting, accepting, abdicating, renouncing, vacating, retiring

freezing, holding

discontinuing, closing, quitting, pausing, culminating, breaking, remitting, interrupting, staying, stopping, suspending, terminating, desisting, halting, ending, abandoning, refraining

Usage examples:

• " Nay," cried the Baron, roughly, " I said nothing of ceasing from war. - "Otto of the Silver Hand", Howard Pyle.
• " I am either mad or it is yours," he said stubbornly, heedless of the ring of staring children who, ceasing to play, had gathered round them. - "Chippinge Borough", Stanley J. Weyman.
• But already Browning was ceasing to bear in mind the conditions of the stage. - "Robert Browning", Edward Dowden.