cease | (noun) (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end | - |
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(verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
ceaseless | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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ceaselessly | (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: continuously, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
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ceaselessness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: continuousness, incessancy, incessantness |
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decease | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, expiry |
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(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
deceased | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, departed, gone |
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(noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed |
predecease | (verb) die before; die earlier than | - |
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surcease | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: cessation |
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unceasing | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unremitting |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending |
unceasingly | (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, incessantly, unendingly |
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