ceased
SEEST/siːst/
- 1Simple past and past participle of cease.
Production ceased the moment the contract expired.
The fighting had ceased by the time reinforcements arrived.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty as simple past and past participle, so only the surrounding words tell them apart: had ceased is perfect, while ceased standing alone is past. It works with or without an object (the guns ceased; the firm ceased operations), and it carries a formal tone that plain stopped lacks. In older writing it can mean failed or perished, a sense now obsolete.
ceased is a form of cease
cease, verb: To come to an end; to stop happening or continuing. Full entry
- Spelling
- cease → ceased: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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