ceasing
present participle ofcease
| 单词 | ceasing |
| 释义 | ceasing present 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 Examplesofceasingceasing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It must be the case that many officials of a legal institution can suffer alienation without the legal institutionceasingto be a social practice. From theCambridge English Corpus Expression of other moods (and modalities) may lack some of the characteristics associated with the prototypical, withoutceasingto be finite. From theCambridge English Corpus A similar reporting obligation applies where a research project ceases before completion of research and includes an obligation to give reasons forceasingresearch. From theCambridge English Corpus Fear is inferred from the infant's suddenlyceasinghis activity to retreat from an object, while fixating it. From theCambridge English Corpus Ceasingto employ various service groups-for instance at weddings-would inculcate habits of frugality and remove religious impurity, frivolity and vulgarity. From theCambridge English Corpus Latencies to first attempt at obtaining help andceasingto attempt to solve puzzles were also noted for each puzzle trial. From theCambridge English Corpus But she could not cease to be a person withoutceasingto exist. From theCambridge English Corpus I believe this to be no good reason forceasingour prayers. From theCambridge English Corpus Through the privatization of formerly statesuppor ted railroad companies and theceasingof subsidies the price sensitivity of the customers increased substantially. From theCambridge English Corpus What we have, instead, is a ' more' that transcends the individual circle that geometry understands, without in the leastceasingto be geometrical in character. From theCambridge English Corpus The findings indicate that acknowledging that death is near is not necessarily the same asceasingto fight death. From theCambridge English Corpus Firstly lazy evaluation is sequential and performs minimum work, with reductionceasingwhen the expression is in weak head normal form. From theCambridge English Corpus In the 1999 survey, economic issues were the main reasons for potentiallyceasingto farm organically. From theCambridge English Corpus On the positive side, independence was enhanced in older age when people were freed from the constraints placed on them byceasingwork. From theCambridge English Corpus The same happens now: the physicist must become a geometer, for otherwise he runs the risk ofceasingto be a physicist and vice versa. 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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