Cease and Hold

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Cease

Cease verb - To come to an end.
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Hold is an antonym for cease.
Nearby Words: ceaseless, ceased, ceasing

Hold

Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.
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Cease is an antonym for hold in topics: believe, support, function, continue, grasp.
Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback
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Common collocations

fire cease fire hold fire
place cease place hold place
time cease time hold time
way cease way hold way
Other words: conversation, sword, weapons.

Both words in one sentence

  • This means that when the situation starts to stabilize nobody trusts him or his faction enough to negotiate a cease-fire, and those few that do negotiate with him hold his side at arm's length.
    Source: Reality Ensues / Web Comics
  • Apple are big enough clients that you could hold them responsible to some degree, but they could cease all orders from Foxconn tomorrow and it, sadly, would not change a thing about how their workers are treated.
    Source: Mis-blamed
  • Literature / Red Rabbit At the same time, The Pope has sent a letter to the Soviet Union warning that if they do not cease their oppression of Poland, he will resign the papacy and return to Poland, threatening to destabilize their hold and weaken communism.
    Source: Literature / Red Rabbit
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