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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word cease:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cease: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cease: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cease, cease: Wordnik
  7. cease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cease: Wiktionary
  9. cease: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cease: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cease, cease: Dictionary.com
  13. cease: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cease: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cease: Rhymezone
  19. cease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cease: Free Dictionary
  22. cease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cease: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. cease: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -cease: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cease: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cease: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. CEASE: Acronym Finder
  3. cease: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cease: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cease: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CEASE: Body Building

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (formal, intransitive) To stop.
verb:  (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
noun:  (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
noun:  A surname from German.

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