[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cease \cease\ s=es, v. i. imp.  p. p. ceased s=est;
   p. pr.  vb. n. ceasing. oe. cessen, cesen, f. cesser,
   fr. l. cessare, v. intensive fr. cedere to withdraw. see
   cede, and cf. cessation.
   1. to come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to
      desist; as, the noise ceased. "to cease from strife."
      --prov. xx. 3.
      1913 webster

   2. to be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
      1913 webster

            the poor shall never cease out of the land. --deut.
                                                  xv. 11.

   syn: to intermit; desist; stop; abstain; quit; discontinue;
        refrain; leave off; pause; end.
        1913 webster
see also:
ceased ceasing cede cessation 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cease \cease\, v. t.
   to put a stop to; to bring to an end.
   1913 webster

         but he, her fears to cease
         sent down the meek-eyed peace.           --milton.
   1913 webster

         cease, then, this impious rage.          --milton
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cease \cease\, n.
   extinction. obs. --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cease
     n : `cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease' end
     v 1: put an end to a state or an activity; "quit teasing your
          little brother" syn: discontinue, stop, give up,
          quit, lay off ant: continue
     2: 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" syn: end,
        stop, finish, terminate ant: begin
see also:
discontinue stop give up quit lay off continue 
end finish terminate begin 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

145 moby thesaurus words for "cease":
   abandon, abdicate, abjure, abort, acknowledge defeat, ad infinitum,
   be consumed, be done for, be gone, be no more, belay, calm,
   calm down, cancel, cease to be, cease to exist, ceaselessly, cede,
   cessation, close, come to naught, come to nothing, conclude,
   conclusion, conk out, constantly, continually, continuously,
   cry quits, cut it out, dematerialize, depart, desist, desist from,
   desistance, determine, die, die away, die down, die out, disappear,
   discontinue, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out,
   drop, drop it, dwindle, ebb, end, ending, endlessly, erode,
   eternally, evanesce, evaporate, everlastingly, exit, expire, fade,
   fade away, fade out, finish, finish up, flee, fly, forever, forgo,
   forswear, give over, give up, go, go away, halt, hand over,
   have done with, hide, hold, incessantly, infinitely, interminably,
   intermit, knock it off, knock off, lay down, lay off,
   leave no trace, leave off, leave the scene, lull, melt, melt away,
   molder, pacify, pass, pass away, pass out, peg out, period, perish,
   perorate, perpetually, quiesce, quiet, quieten, quit, refrain,
   refrain from, relinquish, renounce, resign, resolve,
   retire from sight, run out, scrap, scratch, scrub, sink, sink away,
   soothe, stay, stop, subside, succumb, suffer an eclipse, surcease,
   surrender, terminate, termination, throw up, tranquilize,
   unendingly, unremittingly, vanish, vanish from sight, waive, wane,
   waste, waste away, wear away, wind up, without cease, yield

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