Cease vs Abolish - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cease and abolish

is that cease is (formal|intransitive) to stop while abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .

(ceas)

(formal) To stop.

And with that, his twitching ceased .

(formal) To stop doing (something).

And with that, he ceased twitching.

(obsolete) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xv. 11

The poor shall never cease out of the land.

(es)

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.

Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.

* 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):

(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.

* :

And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.

* :

His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.

* abrogate, annul, cancel, dissolve, nullify, repeal, revoke

* establish, found