cease

To stop.formalintransitive

• And with that, his twitching ceased.
• After a short while, it ceased to rain.

To stop doing (something).formaltransitive

• And with that, he ceased twitching.

To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.intransitiveobsolete

• The poor shall never cease out of the land.
• [...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;

Cessation; extinction (see without cease).obsolete

• the cease of majesty