Ceased and Shut

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Shut and ceased are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shut" instead the word "Ceased" as an adjective or a verb.

Nearby Words: cease, ceasing

Shut verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.

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Ceased and shut are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ceased" instead the word "Shut" as an adjective or a verb.

Nearby Words: shutdown, shutting

They were ordered to return home and refused, shut down the ship's AI to prevent it from returning, then ceased all communication with Earth.

Source: Film / Solaris (2002)
The central authority ceased to exist, the police was shut down by angry mobs, the peripheries of the empire moved towards secession and the army started to wander away in the middle of a World War.

Source: Apocalypse Anarchy
As some experts would recount SAC was probably the most powerful Military Force ever known to Mankind, but after the Cold War it had to be shut down because a nuclear threat from the Soviet Union had more or less ceased.

Source: Death from Above

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