Usually means: Stops, comes to an end.
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  1. ceases: Merriam-Webster
  2. ceases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ceases: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ceases, ceases: Wordnik
  5. ceases: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ceases: Wiktionary
  7. ceases: Dictionary.com
  8. ceases: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ceases: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ceases: Legal dictionary

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  1. ceases: Idioms

(Note: See cease as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cease)

verb:  (formal, intransitive) To stop.
verb:  (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
noun:  (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
noun:  A surname from German.
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