Ceases vs Ceased - What's the difference?
ceases | ceased |
(cease)
(formal) To stop.
(formal) To stop doing (something).
(obsolete) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xv. 11
As verbs the difference between ceases and ceased
is that ceases is third-person singular of cease while ceased is past tense of cease.ceases
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(head)cease
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(ceas)- And with that, his twitching ceased .
- And with that, he ceased twitching.
- The poor shall never cease out of the land.