Cease and Pass

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Cease verb - To come to an end.

Usage example: the rain finally ceased, and we were able to continue the baseball game

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Pass is a synonym for cease in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Pass" instead a verb "Cease", when it comes to topics like disappear.

Nearby Words: ceaseless, ceased, ceasing

Pass verb - To come to an end.

Usage example: eventually, the storm passed

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Cease is a synonym for pass in end topic. You can use "Cease" instead a verb "Pass", if it concerns topics such as stop, disappear, come to an end.

Nearby Words: passage, passed, passing, passable

time	cease time	pass time
way	cease way	pass way

After news of Shen being alive cease, it doesn't take long until Lady Jing, and then Lord Goa, pass away.

Source: Fan Fic / The Vow
It's because of this reason that the Gotei 13 was forced to exterminate the Quincy; their attacks did not purify hollows and allow them to pass on to Soul Society, but instead caused them to cease to exist, removing them from the cycle of reincarnation and tampering with the Balance.

Source: Balancing Death's Books
An interesting variation: In Larry Niven's A World Out Of Time, only pre-adolescents can use the immortality treatment and cease aging, while those who pass puberty become immune to the treatment and age and die normally.

Source: Only Fatal to Adults

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