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Ceased vs Sized - What's the difference?

ceased | sized |

As verbs the difference between ceased and sized

is that ceased is (cease) while sized is (size).

As an adjective sized is

having a certain usually used in combination with an adverb.

ceased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cease)

    • 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.

    sized

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a certain . Usually used in combination with an adverb.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (size)

    • See also

    * sized up