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1. Put an end to a state or an activity
   "cease teasing your little brother";
   - discontinue, stop, give up, quit, lay off, surcease [archaic]
    
2. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
   "My property ceases by the bushes";
   - end, stop, finish, terminate

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

Derived forms: ceased, ceasing, ceases

Type of: end, ending

Encyclopedia: Cease