cease
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
Types & categories
- end hypernym
Related & opposite
- cease derivation
Sense 2 verb
put an end to a state or an activity
Quit teasing your little brother
Types & categories
- knock off hyponym
- leave off hyponym
- sign off hyponym
- retire hyponym
- pull the plug hyponym
- shut off hyponym
- cheese hyponym
- call it quits hyponym
- break hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- begin antonym
- finishing derivation
- end derivation
- close derivation
- conclusion derivation
- final stage derivation
- end derivation
- end derivation
- terminus derivation
- end derivation
- destruction derivation
- end derivation
- close derivation
- terminative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cease |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | end |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | preserve |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | discontinuance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | layover |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stop |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cessation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stop |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cease |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | knock off |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | leave off |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sign off |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | retire |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | pull the plug |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | shut off |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cheese |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | call it quits |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | break |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | begin |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | finishing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | end |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | close |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | conclusion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | final stage |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | end |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | end |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | terminus |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | end |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | destruction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | end |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | close |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | terminative |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pass away |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lapse |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cut out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | go out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | adjourn |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | disappear |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | climax |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | run out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | run low |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | vanish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | conclude |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | turn out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | discontinue |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | break |