sur·cease /(ˌ)sɝˈsis, ˈsɚ/
停止(vt.)(vi.)中止,停止
Sur·cease n. Cessation; stop; end. “Not desire, but its surcease.”
It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. --Bacon.
Sur·cease, v. t. To cause to cease; to end. [Obs.] “The waves . . . their range surceast.”
The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. --Dryden.
Sur·cease, v. i. To cease. [Obs.]
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surcease
n : a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder" [syn: cessation]