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Synonyms for Cease:

• n.

  •
  • conclusion,
  • ending,
  • cessation,
  • terminus,
  • stopping point,
  • consummation,
  • termination,
  • completion,
  • closing.
  •cessation (noun)
  • let-up,
  • screaming halt,
  • grinding halt,
  • timeout,
  • cutoff,
  • time off,
  • break-off,
  • Desistance,
  • breakoff,
  • time out.
  •close (noun)
  • windup,
  • windups.
  •desist (noun)
  • study at stop.
  •end (noun)
  • omega,
  • signoff,
  • sign-off,
  • expiries,
  • wrap-up,
  • expiry,
  • finis,
  • finises.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • kiss off,
  • kiss-off,
  • wind-up,
  • ballgame,
  • last stage,
  • end line,
  • end of the line,
  • closure,
  • winding-up,
  • end of the road,
  • end of line,
  • discontinuance.
  •stop (noun)
  • brick wall,
  • screeching halt,
  • blank wall.

• v.

  •cease (verb)
  • discontinue,
  • end,
  • suspend,
  • abandon,
  • close,
  • halt,
  • desist,
  • terminate,
  • pause,
  • quit,
  • stay,
  • remit,
  • culminate,
  • break,
  • refrain,
  • interrupt,
  • stop.
  •die (verb)
  • part,
  • fall,
  • perish,
  • succumb,
  • pass,
  • depart.
  •give up (verb)
  • relinquish,
  • resign,
  • give up,
  • withdraw,
  • surrender.
  •resign (verb)
  • disclaim,
  • accept,
  • abdicate,
  • reject,
  • vacate,
  • renounce,
  • retire.
  •stative (verb)
  • cease,
  • lay off.
  •stop, conclude (verb)
  • intermit,
  • bring to an end,
  • break off,
  • call it quits,
  • fail,
  • finish,
  • knock off,
  • pack in,
  • die,
  • wind up,
  • surcease,
  • drop,
  • quit cold turkey,
  • back off,
  • leave off,
  • cut it out,
  • close out,
  • call it a day,
  • come to an end,
  • give over,
  • shut down.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • endure,
  • fade away,
  • pack up,
  • adjourn,
  • balk,
  • fall through,
  • die away,
  • throw aside,
  • move over,
  • tear away,
  • pull up,
  • wear off,
  • belay,
  • back away,
  • vanish,
  • mothball,
  • gutter out.
  •
  • evaporate,
  • go away,
  • dissipate,
  • throw up,
  • pull out.
  •
  • pass off,
  • stall,
  • shrivel,
  • dissolve.
  •
  • melt.
  •
  • burn out.
  •
  • tumble.
  •
  • walk.
  •
  • clear.
  •blow over
  • died down,
  • petering out,
  • Downs,
  • peter out,
  • die down,
  • downed,
  • dies down,
  • downing,
  • dying down,
  • fizzle out.
  •close
  • wind down,
  • drop the curtain,
  • pack it in,
  • Ultimating,
  • shuttered,
  • Ultimated,
  • call a day,
  • button up,
  • put lid on,
  • button down,
  • packs in,
  • winding down,
  • put to bed,
  • sew up,
  • packed in,
  • put a lid on,
  • ultimates,
  • shutter,
  • sewed up,
  • buttoned up,
  • fold up,
  • shuttering.
  •drop out
  • give notice,
  • retreating.
  •end
  • switch off,
  • get done,
  • pull the plug,
  • switching off,
  • pulling the plug,
  • exterminates,
  • switched off,
  • putting to death,
  • put to death.
  •end up
  • come to a halt,
  • arrive finally,
  • finished up,
  • turn out to be,
  • finish as,
  • finish up.
  •kill
  • Scotched,
  • scotches,
  • Killed,
  • nixing,
  • killing,
  • Scotching,
  • kill,
  • Negativing,
  • Negatived.
  •lay off
  • lie by,
  • give a rest,
  • leave alone,
  • left alone,
  • lay by.
  •leave
  • leave.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Refusing,
  • be lost,
  • Knuckling,
  • keep from,
  • stop work,
  • brought to a close,
  • passed up,
  • Cinched,
  • take it easy,
  • withhold,
  • become dark,
  • forbear,
  • leaf,
  • Cinching,
  • mop up,
  • adios,
  • throw in towel,
  • not do,
  • pacifies,
  • caves in,
  • part with,
  • drawing close,
  • knuckle,
  • Caved,
  • cut out,
  • pass on,
  • lays aside,
  • Make short work of,
  • decease,
  • interpose,
  • forget about,
  • Paused,
  • take ten,
  • taking it easy,
  • Tamped,
  • giving over,
  • Perished,
  • give the go by,
  • Prorogued,
  • kick the habit,
  • sit on the fence,
  • drop like a hot potato,
  • balmed,
  • part from,
  • draw to close,
  • sit out,
  • standing still,
  • sat out,
  • wash hands of,
  • have done with,
  • gave up the ghost,
  • washed out,
  • inactivated,
  • laid back,
  • retrogrades,
  • give in to,
  • stop shining,
  • giving up the ghost,
  • stops briefly,
  • blow the whistle on,
  • fall victim to,
  • take five,
  • gave in,
  • Caving,
  • Ods,
  • cash in chips,
  • preclude,
  • buckle under,
  • slow down,
  • inactivating,
  • be temperate,
  • throw in the towel,
  • giving to,
  • drop like hot potato,
  • run out,
  • outed,
  • mopping up,
  • give in,
  • quieted down,
  • calls it quits,
  • elapse,
  • quiet down,
  • kick over,
  • fence-sit,
  • hang it up,
  • caving in,
  • hang up,
  • blow over,
  • call time,
  • break down,
  • starve,
  • take oath,
  • sidelined,
  • Retrograded,
  • Wedging,
  • conclude,
  • ease up,
  • Demising,
  • parted with,
  • Intermitted,
  • recidivating,
  • blow off,
  • go on the wagon,
  • deal with,
  • hanging fire,
  • drop out,
  • inactivates,
  • bring to a standstill,
  • Tamping,
  • top off,
  • put end to,
  • lay over,
  • forgets about,
  • hold at bay,
  • closed down,
  • put a stop to,
  • take the edge,
  • wash out,
  • dust off,
  • put on hold,
  • put the lid on,
  • lose life,
  • gave way,
  • go easy,
  • topped off,
  • forswear,
  • wadding,
  • buy it,
  • give up the ghost,
  • stopped briefly,
  • giving way,
  • taking a break,
  • quit cold,
  • Proroguing,
  • passed away,
  • give way,
  • call off all bets,
  • passed on,
  • be destroyed,
  • hang fire,
  • get on the wagon,
  • lull,
  • Hesitated,
  • end up,
  • sideline,
  • TAMPS,
  • put an end to,
  • parts with,
  • washing out,
  • break it up,
  • terminated,
  • come to standstill,
  • tamp,
  • die out,
  • take a break,
  • kick bucket,
  • died out,
  • forgoing,
  • relapse,
  • lullaby,
  • buy a one-way ticket,
  • show white flag,
  • sit on one's hands,
  • fence-sitting,
  • bring to end,
  • soft pedal,
  • goes out,
  • carry through,
  • starves,
  • bring to a close,
  • lapse,
  • throwing in the towel,
  • hangs fire,
  • breaking down,
  • Forbore,
  • taking the cure,
  • easing off,
  • wadded,
  • cave in,
  • becoming obsolete,
  • cool off,
  • mopped up,
  • Extracting,
  • meet waterloo,
  • jampack,
  • waste one,
  • thinking twice,
  • withholds,
  • draws close,
  • cooling off,
  • become obsolete,
  • bring to standstill,
  • draw close,
  • OUTS,
  • expire,
  • put on back burner,
  • cease fire,
  • refrain from,
  • abstain,
  • Thronging,
  • passes on,
  • flaked out,
  • prorogues,
  • stop briefly,
  • take the pledge,
  • go out,
  • close down,
  • knuckles,
  • fading out,
  • bag it,
  • pass up,
  • take the cure,
  • passing on,
  • put on the shelf,
  • fade out,
  • lay on the table,
  • laid aside,
  • give to,
  • make impracticable,
  • wedged,
  • jamming,
  • Jostled,
  • stand still,
  • takes a breather,
  • wash one's hands of,
  • take sting out,
  • take the sting out,
  • Forgone,
  • jam,
  • parted from,
  • put stop to,
  • Intermitting,
  • intervenes,
  • Retrograding,
  • putting on hold,
  • deny oneself,
  • Prorogate,
  • exsected,
  • take a breather,
  • slowed down,
  • put a cork in,
  • lay aside,
  • put on ice,
  • usurped,
  • recidivate,
  • bring down curtain,
  • take the count,
  • Knuckled,
  • flake out,
  • cool it,
  • suspended,
  • be killed,
  • Demised,
  • washes out,
  • be alienated from,
  • get out of the way,
  • wedge,
  • passing away,
  • closing down,
  • up and die,
  • lay back,
  • eased up,
  • withheld,
  • drop anchor,
  • parting with,
  • call a halt to,
  • Exsect,
  • prorogue,
  • Forfend,
  • sit on fence,
  • give into,
  • think twice,
  • is lost,
  • takes it easy,
  • inactivate,
  • took the pledge,
  • carrying through,
  • spurn,
  • take the oath,
  • dropping anchor,
  • ease off,
  • put finishing touches on,
  • blow whistle on,
  • let up.
  •run out
  • running out,
  • have none left,
  • give out,
  • wasted away,
  • dry up,
  • have no more,
  • come close,
  • come to a close,
  • wasting away,
  • dried up,
  • be cleaned out,
  • drying up,
  • be out of.
  •stop
  • sign off,
  • run its course,
  • ran its course.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • hold up,
  • discontinuation,
  • edit out,
  • bashful,
  • give the axe,
  • unmatched,
  • become void,
  • moderation,
  • retire from sight,
  • wait,
  • distrust,
  • fade,
  • hesitate,
  • cut,
  • inordinate,
  • burn,
  • sink,
  • agree,
  • close up,
  • eat up,
  • turn off,
  • be consumed,
  • evanesce,
  • absolutely,
  • stoppage,
  • abridge,
  • abbreviate,
  • achieve,
  • abatement,
  • shutoff,
  • renunciation,
  • most,
  • abstain from,
  • check,
  • scrap,
  • acknowledge,
  • breathe one's last,
  • continuously,
  • climax,
  • allow,
  • be all over,
  • calm down,
  • stem,
  • determine,
  • totally,
  • quiesce,
  • give,
  • extinction,
  • bring down,
  • constantly,
  • forever,
  • disregard,
  • come off,
  • rationalize,
  • furlough,
  • intermission,
  • sacrifice,
  • cease to exist,
  • foreshorten,
  • recant,
  • shut up,
  • cut down,
  • deliver,
  • respite,
  • arrest,
  • cast-off,
  • relief,
  • forsake,
  • stop short,
  • diffident,
  • settle,
  • come to naught,
  • shutdown,
  • forbid,
  • throw over,
  • curb,
  • leave office,
  • cede,
  • hold back,
  • unassuming,
  • Pausing,
  • unique,
  • undue,
  • rationalise,
  • yield,
  • incomparable,
  • lay down,
  • Desinence,
  • result,
  • fall dead,
  • dismiss,
  • offset,
  • interruption,
  • haltingly,
  • abjure,
  • interval,
  • dwindle,
  • ignore,
  • abort,
  • blockade,
  • lastly,
  • repudiate,
  • sever,
  • separate,
  • be no more,
  • recess,
  • slew,
  • pop off,
  • scratch,
  • entirely,
  • knock it off,
  • retiring,
  • turn back,
  • forgo,
  • ceaselessly,
  • unprecedented,
  • truce,
  • leave no trace,
  • sack,
  • conk out,
  • interdict,
  • forego,
  • philosopher,
  • surely,
  • hand over,
  • ditch,
  • stifle,
  • waste,
  • ban,
  • modest,
  • suppress,
  • lessening,
  • baulk,
  • drop dead,
  • stow,
  • trim down,
  • everlastingly,
  • pacify,
  • bar,
  • stopping,
  • come to nothing,
  • exorbitant,
  • thin out,
  • dematerialize,
  • fully,
  • waste away,
  • hesitation,
  • molder,
  • categorically,
  • veer,
  • already,
  • humble,
  • perfectly,
  • be done for,
  • be discontinued,
  • restrain,
  • lose,
  • prevent,
  • go off,
  • repress,
  • shorten,
  • unremittingly,
  • wane,
  • force out,
  • cut short,
  • lacuna,
  • shut off,
  • spirit,
  • dispel,
  • erode,
  • diminution,
  • restrict,
  • scrub,
  • admit,
  • isolated,
  • suspension,
  • roost,
  • excessive,
  • ultimately,
  • ebb,
  • enormously,
  • soothe,
  • utterly,
  • make out,
  • subside,
  • fizzle,
  • greatly,
  • stanch,
  • interminably,
  • detached,
  • pass out,
  • shut,
  • profuse,
  • retard,
  • period,
  • hold on,
  • perpetually,
  • dispense with,
  • thoroughly,
  • jilt,
  • get through,
  • dam,
  • wither,
  • swerve,
  • admit defeat,
  • finally,
  • Ceasing,
  • eventually,
  • censor,
  • extremely,
  • skip,
  • call off,
  • proscribe,
  • take leave,
  • throw overboard,
  • superfluous,
  • unparalleled,
  • very,
  • let go,
  • eternally,
  • meet one's death,
  • positively,
  • fly,
  • cease to be,
  • continually,
  • calm,
  • acknowledge defeat,
  • free,
  • relaxation,
  • gap,
  • prohibit,
  • incessantly,
  • inhibit,
  • disperse,
  • pare,
  • break one's neck,
  • come to a standstill,
  • infinitely,
  • cease to live,
  • relinquishment,
  • displace,
  • definitely,
  • collect oneself,
  • chop off,
  • barricade,
  • dump,
  • desist from,
  • waive,
  • unendingly,
  • forfeit,
  • vanish from sight,
  • resolve,
  • non-stop,
  • trim back,
  • be gone,
  • block,
  • cut back,
  • tranquillise,
  • endlessly,
  • do away with,
  • contain,
  • rest,
  • run out of,
  • hiatus,
  • embankment,
  • purely,
  • tranquilize,
  • hide,
  • keep off,
  • drop it,
  • melt down,
  • curtail,
  • can,
  • obstruct,
  • abeyance,
  • remain,
  • afterwards,
  • edit,
  • swear off,
  • melt away,
  • put paid to,
  • Avast,
  • cancel,
  • lop off,
  • disappear,
  • peg out,
  • staunch,
  • write out,
  • dilute,
  • impede,
  • be taken,
  • excessively,
  • recessed,
  • perorate,
  • breeze,
  • desert,
  • release,
  • completely,
  • doubt,
  • quiet,
  • split,
  • lay,
  • chuck,
  • breath,
  • unreasonable,
  • discard,
  • interfere with,
  • delay,
  • disunite,
  • embargo,
  • certainly,
  • unceasingly,
  • polish off,
  • prune,
  • intense,
  • quieten,
  • amputate,
  • be over,
  • desuetude,
  • extravagant,
  • stick,
  • disrupt,
  • wear away,
  • extreme,
  • become extinct,
  • hinder,
  • send away,
  • reduce,
  • intercept,
  • flee,
  • discontinuity,
  • pack.