how to pronounce cease

/ˈsiːs/

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cease is pronounced in one syllable

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iː

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An example use of cease in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… we could make the war cease now we can …”

meaning of cease

Cease means to stop or end.

cease frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word cease occurs in english on average 6.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cease can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cease can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;