0 to stop something:
1 without stopping
2 to stop an action or condition:
[ + to infinitive ] It was hard to accept that one day he would simply cease to exist.
[ T ] Clapp had to cease publication because of lack of money.
Cultural assimilation has ceased to be acceptable to indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies.
The ratio at which responding ceases is termed the breakpoint, and is routinely used to compare the reinforcing efficacy of different drugs or drug doses.
Salons ceased to be associated, as they had been at times during the eighteenth century, with the political and cultural avantgarde.
By the end of the eighteenth century, mining ceased to be the force promoting economic growth.
This monotonicity ceases to hold for doubly-connected regions.
Its proposition is that knowledge should cease to be seen as neutral, scientific and universal.
If the female is separated from the male, gene expression is stopped and egg production ceases.
In four of these the relationship had ceased to exist by the time the pregnancy was discovered.
