Associations to the word «Ceasing»

Wiktionary

CEASE, verb. (formal) (intransitive) To stop.
CEASE, verb. (formal) (transitive) To stop doing (something).
CEASE, verb. (obsolete) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
CEASE AND DESIST, verb. (idiomatic) (legal) To stop and not resume an action.
CEASE AND DESIST, noun. (legal) A demanding that one "cease and desist from" continuing certain behavior, such as copyright infringement, trademark infringement, slander, or libel.
CEASE TO BE, verb. (idiomatic) to die

Dictionary definition

CEASE, noun. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end.
CEASE, verb. Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother".
CEASE, verb. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats