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ceases

  • present tense form of cease (3rd person singular).

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Therefore it never Ceases to be engendered off of things And to return to things, since verily In constant flux do all things stream.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

But when love and harmony Fill his breast, how willingly Ceases Phoebus then to heed Rattling dart and snow-white steed!

From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Schiller, Friedrich

When I surcease,    Through whom alone lives she, Ceases my Love, her words, her ways,    Never again to be!

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

A breath of wind, a Border bullet's flight, A draught of water, or a horse's fright—   The droning of the fat Sheristadar Ceases, the punkah stops, and falls the night For you or Me.

From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard

Develops at a temperature of 45� C. Ceases to develop at temperatures under 41� C. Odor.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock