To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Proverbs 20:3.

To fail; to be wanting. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deuteronomy 15:11.

To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.

To be forgotten. I would make the remembrance of them to cease. Deuteronomy 32:26.

To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalm 37:8. To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.

To put a stop to; to put an end to. Cease this impious rage.

Extinction.