cease

CEASE, verb intransitive 1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Proverbs 20:3.2. To fail; to be wanting.The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deuteronomy 15:11.3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.4. To be forgotten.I would make the remembrance of them to cease Deuteronomy 32:26.5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8.To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.CEASE, verb transitive To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ]CEASE, noun Extinction