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Cease :: Cease (v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.

Pause :: Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.

Quit :: Quit (a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting..

Third :: Third (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life..

Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls..

Die :: Die (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin..

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

Surcease :: Surcease (v. t.) To cause to cease; to end.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.

Intermit :: Intermit (v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever..

Restagnate :: Restagnate (v. i.) To stagnate; to cease to flow.

Departure :: Departure (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.

Illuminati :: Illuminati (v. t.) Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years..

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty..

Desist :: Desist (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

Requiem :: Requiem (n.) Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person..

Stagnate :: Stagnate (v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room..

Ghost :: Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

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