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ceased

[seest]

adjective

  1. stopped or ended; discontinued.

    The vehicles and drivers from the ceased bus routes will be used to help provide rail replacement bus services.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of cease.

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Other Word Forms

  • unceased adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ceased1

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Owners of the refinery, Petroineos, ceased crude oil processing in April, with a planned closure this summer resulting in the loss of 430 jobs.

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But as Mexico and the U.S. got better, playing group-play matches against the likes of Saint Kitts and Nevis or Martinique every other year ceased to be a challenge.

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The San Diego Police Department’s child abuse unit announced in April that it was investigating the girl’s death but the department said Friday it has ceased its investigation and closed the case, said Lt.

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Sellafield ceased generating electricity in 2003 and, in addition to work cleaning up the site, now processes and stores nuclear waste from power plants around the UK.

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Despite a brief return following the two world wars, when driven shoots largely ceased, numbers gradually declined again with the last resident golden eagle in England disappearing from the Lake District in 2015.

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