(~s, ceasing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something ~s, it stops happening or existing. (FORMAL)
At one o’clock the rain had ~d.
= halt
VERB: V
2.
If you ~ to do something, you stop doing it. (FORMAL)
He never ~s to amaze me...
A small number of firms have ~d trading.
VERB: V to-inf, V -ing
3.
If you ~ something, you stop it happening or working. (FORMAL)
The Tundra Times, a weekly newspaper in Alaska, ~d publication this week.
= stop
VERB: V n