Synonyms of the word cease


CEASEDISCONTINUE - END - ENDING - FINISH - QUIT - STOP - TERMINATE

cease

  • v. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
  • v. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

discontinue

  • v. To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop…

end

  • n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
  • n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
  • n. Death, especially miserable.
  • n. Result.
  • n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
  • n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
  • n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
  • n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  • n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
  • n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
  • n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  • v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

ending

  • v. present participle of end.
  • n. A termination or conclusion.
  • n. The last part of something.
  • n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

finish

  • n. An end; the end of anything.
  • n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
  • n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
  • n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
  • v. (transitive) To complete (something).
  • v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
  • v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
  • v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

quit

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
  • v. (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
  • v. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to…
  • v. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
  • v. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  • v. (transitive) To leave (a place).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
  • v. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
  • n. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

stop

  • v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
  • v. (intransitive) To not continue.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
  • v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
  • v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
  • v. (intransitive) To tarry.
  • v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
  • v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
  • v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
  • n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
  • n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
  • n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
  • n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
  • n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
  • n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
  • n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
  • n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
  • n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
  • n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
  • n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
  • n. (photography) An f-stop.
  • n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
  • n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
  • n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
  • adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
  • interj. halt! stop!
  • punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
  • n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
  • adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

terminate

  • v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
  • adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
  • adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
  • adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

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