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cessation
/ sɛˈseɪʃən /
noun
- a ceasing or stopping; discontinuance; pause
temporary cessation of hostilities
Word History and Origins
Origin of cessation1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cessation1
Example Sentences
It potentially shows the complex set of cascading events that can follow from human activity or the cessation of human activity.
The $40 million will help fund vaping cessation and prevention programs, as well as e-cigarette-focused research.
Across their stories, we read how their bodies changed over the years, with their breasts withering, the cessation of menstruation — and their skin gaining a darker and coarse complexion.
When nicotine-replacement therapies went over-the-counter for smoking cessation, we saw increases in utilization simply from going from requiring a prescription to going to over-the-counter.
This path led to an increasing level of military engagement with tribes across the West, and consequently the signing of treaties intended to subdue Native peoples and to force the cessation of lands.
They wrote a campaign platform that called, “after four years of failure to restore the Union,” for “a cessation of hostilities.”
Some have speculated that cessation of CPR decreases pressure in the chest cavity, allowing blood to return to the heart.
In that regard, no one knows whether cessation of potent anti-HIV medications will result in newly detectable virus.
It is unclear if this week's cessation of hostilities will be able to put that genie back in the bottle.
On Thursday, delegates representing the government signed a cessation of hostilities agreement with the armed opposition.
The declaration of war, or cessation thereof, used to be proclaimed in the market by the High Bailiff.
But Mrs. Armine still lay awake, felt as if the cessation of the singing had made her less capable of sleeping.
The third skulker took advantage of the cessation of firing to tumble down from his perch and fly for his life.
Towards the end of the last decade of the nineteenth century there was for a time a cessation of the continuous increase.
The cessation of Welsh distractions had greatly favoured the advancement of Shrewsbury.
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