ceased
past simple and past participle ofcease
| 单词 | ceased |
| 释义 | ceased past simple and past participle ofcease cease verb[IorT] formaluk/siːs/us/siːs/B2 tostopsomething: Whether theprotestswill ceaseremainsto beseen. Thecompanyhasdecidedto cease all UKoperationsafter thisyear. [+ to infinitive]Workplacenurserieswill ceasetobeliablefortax.
Causing something to end
Idiomcease and desist Examplesofceasedceased In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Others re-visited once or twice in the first 3 months and thenceasedvisiting unless problems were thought likely to occur. From theCambridge English Corpus As the study of developmental psychology devotes virtually no attention to the adult years, the assumption is that development hasceasedby this time. From theCambridge English Corpus In four of these the relationship hadceasedto exist by the time the pregnancy was discovered. From theCambridge English Corpus By the end of the eighteenth century, miningceasedto be the force promoting economic growth. From theCambridge English Corpus Salonsceasedto be associated, as they had been at times during the eighteenth century, with the political and cultural avantgarde. From theCambridge English Corpus Cultural assimilation hasceasedto be acceptable to indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies. From theCambridge English Corpus Emission from a stainless steel cathode completelyceasedafter 10 6 pulses. From theCambridge English Corpus All hadceasedlessons and stopped playing by the time they were fourteen years old. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet the truth is that parties in both countries have for a long timeceasedto be anything other than electoral machines. From theCambridge English Corpus But, for some, the future was not something to contemplate, they had eitherceasedto live for themselves or were waiting to die. From theCambridge English Corpus Have institutions like the family indeedceasedto function as vectors of transmission? From theCambridge English Corpus Opposition groups have notceasedin criticizing the treaty and calling for its abrogation. From theCambridge English Corpus The issue is complex, controversial, and begs the question of who should have the authority to determine that conditions of insecurity haveceased. From theCambridge English Corpus Nationalism had surely played a positive role in modern liberalism in the nineteenth century, but now its historic mission hadceased. From theCambridge English Corpus In sum, with the decline in rural income in the 1930s, pampean agricultureceasedto attract capital at the same pace as in the past. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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