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Cease vs Unyoke - What's the difference?

cease | unyoke |

As verbs the difference between cease and unyoke

is that cease is (formal|intransitive) to stop while unyoke is to release something from a yoke or harness.

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.

    unyoke

    English

    Verb

    (unyok)
  • To release something from a yoke or harness.
  • To disconnect, unlink.
  • To liberate, deliver from oppression.
  • To unyoke an animal.
  • To cease from labour.
  • Synonyms

    * abjugate

    Derived terms

    * unyoked

    References

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