Cease

CEASE, verb intransitive

1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. [[Proverbs 20#3|Proverbs 20:3]].

2. To fail; to be wanting.

The poor shall never cease out of the land. [[Deuteronomy 15#11|Deuteronomy 15:11]].

3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.

4. To be forgotten.

I would make the remembrance of them to cease [[Deuteronomy 32#26|Deuteronomy 32:26]].

5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. [[Psalms 37#8|Psalms 37:8]].

To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.

CEASE, verb transitive To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ]

CEASE, noun Extinction.