cease · verb
Sens et exemples
Arrêter une activité ou mettre fin à quelque chose.
Production ceased temporarily while engineers investigated the unusual noise coming from one of the machines.
The letters continued to arrive even after the company had ceased trading under its former name.
Residents asked the builders to cease work during the hours when young children were usually asleep.
Once the rain ceased, volunteers returned to the field to inspect the damage to the tents.
Formes
- cease base form
- ceases third-person singular present
- ceased past tense; past participle
- ceasing present participle