Definitions for cessation

cessation ces·sa·tion

Spelling: [se-sey-shuh n]
IPA: /sɛˈseɪ ʃən/

Cessation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 691 anagrams from letters in cessation (aceinosst).

Definitions for cessation

noun

  1. a temporary or complete stopping; discontinuance:

Origin of cessation

1350-1400; Middle English cessacio(u)n Latin cessātiōn- (stem of cessātiō) delay, inactivity, stoppage, equivalent to cessāt(us) past participle of cessāre to delay, stop (cess(us) yielded, c

Examples for cessation

It is unclear if this week's cessation of hostilities will be able to put that genie back in the bottle.

Again, when pleasure ceases, that sort of rest or cessation will be painful?

With a decline in prices, mostly, the cessation of the demand coincides.

All the while he was watching mercilessly for the cessation of the struggles.

Our company is not in the business of making products for cessation.

There was no cessation, but the regular moment's pause, in the utterance of these sounds.

On Thursday, delegates representing the government signed a cessation of hostilities agreement with the armed opposition.

Some have speculated that cessation of CPR decreases pressure in the chest cavity, allowing blood to return to the heart.

Let us not, then, be induced to believe that pure pleasure is the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.

They wrote a campaign platform that called, “after four years of failure to restore the Union,” for “a cessation of hostilities.”

Word Value for cessation
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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