Definition of ceased

"ceased" in the verb sense

1. discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

put an end to a state or an activity

"Quit teasing your little brother"

2. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense either spatial or metaphorical

"the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"

"Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"

"My property ends by the bushes"

"The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

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Quotations for ceased

A light broke in upon my soul -
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased - and then it came again
The sweetest song ear ever heard. [ Byron ]

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. [ Longfellow ]

Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman we have ceased to love. [ Lemontey ]

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The heart of woman never grows old; when it has ceased to love, it has ceased to live. [ Rochepedre ]

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. [ Talleyrand ]

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Friendship may outlive love and its passions; for instances have not unfrequently occurred, in which parties who have ceased to regard each other as lovers, have been found necessary as friends and confidential advisers. [ Mme. de Pompadour ]

What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]

ceased in Scrabble®

The word ceased is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters ceased:

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ceased in Words With Friends™

The word ceased is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters ceased:

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Words containing the sequence ceased

Words that start with ceased (1 word)

Words with ceased in them (1 word)

Words that end with ceased (5 words)

Word Growth involving ceased

Shorter words in ceased

as ease cease

as ease eased

Longer words containing ceased

deceased predeceased

deceased undeceased

unceased