cease
/icons/point.icon STOP, CEASE, QUIT, DISCONTINUE, DESIST mean to suspend or cause to suspend activity.
STOP applies to action or progress or to what is operating or progressing and may imply suddenness or definiteness.
e.g. stopped at the red light
CEASE applies to states, conditions, or existence and may add a suggestion of gradualness and a degree of finality.
e.g. by nightfall the fighting had ceased
QUIT may stress either finality or abruptness in stopping or ceasing.
e.g. the engine faltered, sputtered, then quit altogether
DISCONTINUE applies to the stopping of an accustomed activity or practice.
e.g. we have discontinued the manufacture of that item
DESIST implies forbearance or restraint as a motive for stopping or ceasing.
e.g. desisted from further efforts to persuade them
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verb no object
bring or come to an end:
〈雨･音などが〉やむ, 終わる (!stopと違い, 車･人など動いているものが「止まる」という意味はない)
e.g. the hostilities had ceased and normal life was resumed
e.g. with infinitive : on his retirement the job will cease to exist
｟ややかたく｠ 〈人･物が〉〈活動など〉をやめる, 終える; 〖cease to do/doing〗 …することをやめる, …しなくなる (!stopより｟かたく｠ )
e.g. with object : they were asked to cease all military activity.
PHRASES
never cease to
(in hyperbolic use) do something very frequently:
e.g. her exploits never cease to amaze me.
without cease
without stopping.
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French cesser, from Latin cessare ‘stop’, from cedere ‘to yield’.