cease
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Is cease a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (formal, intransitive) To stop.Examples: "And with that, his twitching ceased."Synonyms: discontinue, hold, terminate, complete, conclude, consummate, discontinue, doformalintransitive
2. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).Examples: "And with that, he ceased twitching."Synonyms: arrest, discontinue, absist, belay, blin, break off, cease, cessformaltransitive
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.Examples: "The poor shall never cease out of the land."; "[...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;"; "’Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease."Synonyms: desert, lackintransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).Examples: "the cease of majesty"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary