Usually means: Stopping or ending an activity.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. ceasing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ceasing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ceasing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ceasing, ceasing: Wordnik
  5. ceasing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ceasing: Wiktionary
  7. Ceasing, ceasing: Dictionary.com
  8. ceasing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ceasing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Ceasing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. ceasing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. ceasing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ceasing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ceasing: Legal dictionary

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  1. ceasing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ceasing)

▸ noun:  A cessation.

Similar:
discontinue, lay off, stop, terminate, end, quit, give up, finish, cessation, expiration, more...

Opposite:
continuing, persisting, resuming

Types:
discontinue, end, halt, terminate, cease, more...

Phrases:
never ceasing, ceasing to be, without ceasing, more...

Adjectives:
never, sudden, mere, gradual, little, temporary, last, wicked, violent, scarce, non

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Similar:
discontinue, lay off, stop, terminate, end, quit, give up, finish, cessation, expiration, more...

Opposite:
continuing, persisting, resuming

Types:
discontinue, end, halt, terminate, cease, more...

Phrases:
never ceasing, ceasing to be, without ceasing, more...

Adjectives:
never, sudden, mere, gradual, little, temporary, last, wicked, violent, scarce, non

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     stone,     smoke, more...



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