ENGLISH: cease - CREOLE: rete



Overview of noun cease



The noun cease has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)



1. cease -- ((`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end)



Overview of verb cease



The verb cease has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (25) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off -- (put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother")

2. (6) end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (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")

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