I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cease to exist (= stop existing )
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Many of these companies will cease to exist in five years' time.
cease trading (= stop being a business because you are bankrupt )
ceased to function
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Her legs have now ceased to function .
never ceased to amaze
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It never ceased to amaze him that women were attracted to Sam.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
abruptly
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It ceased abruptly and her gaze left his to wander down his body, stopping only to rest upon his nakedness.
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The alimony Betty Parsons lived on abruptly ceased , and she was forced to leave Paris.
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Yeremi's stream of plasma ceased abruptly as his hand cramped within that fervid womb.
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Some may have been in hiding, traumatized by the squealing that had filled the afternoon air and then quite abruptly ceased .
almost
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As the Old Bailey Chronicle reported, Smith experienced excessive pain when first turned off, but that ceased almost immediately.
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Required to spend more time with Matilda, Agnes finds that her encounters with the curate dwindle and almost cease altogether.
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It had almost ceased to matter that she was in Paris, and not in love.
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Electorally, Labour has almost ceased to exist in those counties.
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One wet day, though, in 1985 Bellerby Feast had almost ceased to exist.
long
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Had Woodhead gone in 1997, he would have long ceased to be a serious nuisance.
never
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I have no problems with this evidence, but it never ceases to amaze me what some modern theologians do with it.
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It never ceased to amaze me to watch soldiers head right for these places.
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It never ceased to amaze me how he could do it.
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His daughter's beauty had never ceased to surprise the chief inspector.
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Frye never ceased to be amazed by how little they knew, how unfamiliar they were with the basic routines of school.
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Millie thought that they would never cease praying.
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These towers of loops never cease to amuse us because inevitably the messages circulating along them cross their own paths.
soon
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Once formed, rings soon cease to exchange with the biosphere.
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This is not like the Tao, and that which is not Tao-like will soon cease .
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He soon ceased trying new ideas, already outstripped by others far more inventive than he.
■ NOUN
operation
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If that prospect goes, the port operation would probably cease .
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Unemployment insurance operations have ceased in Kansas, and may soon halt in 10 other states and the District of Columbia.
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Immediately after fertilising operations have ceased , banking-up is performed by ploughing an angled blade between each row of vines.
production
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It was investigated in 1989 for violations of environmental laws, and production ceased later that year.
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Voice over At the end of the week, production will finally cease in the Rover north works.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wonders will never cease
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All conversation ceased as the two police officers entered.
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By noon the rain had ceased.
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Hostilities between the two countries have now ceased.
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Many of these firms have now ceased to exist.
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Presently, the rain ceased and the sun came out.
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The factory has now ceased production and will close next month.
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The mill ceased operating commercially two years ago.
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The newspaper has been forced to cease publication.
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The sound of gunfire gradually receded and then ceased altogether.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Andy Davis, with a strong departmental power base in marketing, had ceased to argue so strongly for diversification.
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For those above them -- households with over $ 62, 000 -- the payroll tax ceases to grow.
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Indeed the psychiatric hospitals themselves may, in many areas, cease to exist.
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That step is to cease attacking Dubrovnik and to withdraw from it.
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The arrangement ended on 1 January when the Soviet Union ceased trading with its former allies on a convertible rouble basis.
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The world had ceased to exist.
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There was nothing to do except wait for the gale to cease while we let Hsu Fu drift with the wind.
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We cease trying vainly to understand the secrets of the Universe as we have hitherto tried to do.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aircraft landed and took off without cease , so that seldom less than a dozen were airborne at one time.
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As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease .