Definitions for ceases

ceases cease

Spelling: [sees]
IPA: /sis/

Ceases is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in ceases (aceess).

Definitions for ceases

noun

  1. cessation:

verb (used with object)

  1. to put a stop or end to; discontinue:

verb (used without object)

  1. to stop; discontinue:
  2. to come to an end:
  3. Obsolete. to pass away; die out.

Origin of ceases

1250-1300; Middle English ces(s)en Old French cesser Latin cessāre to leave off, equivalent to cess(us) (past participle of cēdere to withdraw, go; ced- go + -tus past participle suffix) + -ā

Examples for ceases

Without love woman abjures her nature and ceases to be normal.

Or as William Hazlitt put it, “When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”

What will become of Olivia when she ceases to love and be loved?

Who is most to blame, he who ceases to love, or she who ceases to please?

DeWeese has wanted BP to pay a cash bond to ensure the company remediates the site and the bayou once it ceases operations.

If the government hits the debt ceiling and ceases to pay its obligations, a lot of vendors are in for a nasty shock.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

It ceases to be heard as a symbol, and appears only as a sign.

If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Thus the Bible ceases to be an ancient text, and therefore ceases to really say anything other than what we want it to say.

Word Value for ceases
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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