Cease
Cease verb - To come to an end.
Usage example: the rain finally ceased, and we were able to continue the baseball game
Quit is a synonym for cease in stop topic. In some cases you can use "Quit" instead a verb "Cease", when it comes to topics like continue, discontinue, bring to an end, stop work. popular alternative
Quit
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Circe does quit the villainous The Pack and cease following Van Kleiss, but she doesn't join Providence, either.
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Rage Quit: His reaction to Fluttershy beating his mind games is to cease the mind games and outright brainwash her.
- The bandmembers had retreated so far behind the imagery and stage effects that only a surprisingly small hard core of fans actually knew who Roger Waters was, let alone that he had now quit, depriving Floyd of its main writer; or that he believed the band would/should now cease to exist as a result.
Source: Broken Base / Music
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