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Cease vs Swike - What's the difference?

cease | swike |

As verbs the difference between cease and swike

is that cease is (formal|intransitive) to stop while swike is (transitive|dialectal|or|obsolete) to deceive, cheat; betray.

As an adjective swike is

(dialectal|or|obsolete) deceitful; treacherous.

As a noun swike is

(dialectal|chiefly|scotland) deceit; treachery.

cease

English

Verb

(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.

    swike

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To deceive, cheat; betray
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To stop, blin, cease

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Deceitful; treacherous

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Deceit; treachery
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) A deceiver; betrayer, traitor
  • * 1848 , Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings :
    • The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike , or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) A hiding place; den; cave

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