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Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.

While there are a couple of antibiotics that usually work, if they are overused they, too, may cease to be effective.

The liberated soul does not cease to act, to think, to create, to instigate revolutionary flows.

If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

The facts do not cease to matter merely because a white cop killed a black boy.

The bear watched him narrowly with its wicked little eyes, though it did not see fit to cease its paw-licking.

As soon as he had seen his mother, he would set off again, and never cease searching till he had found either Ramona or her grave.

It was a life full of freedom, and I shall never cease to be grateful for it, but I must go home soon and look after my affairs.

He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the fear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies to cease.

Industrial society, they say, must be reorganized from top to bottom; private industry must cease.

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On this page you'll find 127 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cease, such as: break off, desist, discontinue, fail, halt, and quit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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