Ceased [verb]

The judge went further and enjoined the county from both enforcing its cease and desist order against the strip clubs and businesses with restaurant services.

Without a near-total cease in carbon pollution, our climate won’t stop warming.

The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.

We can imagine that, as soon as a printed book ceased to be a great rarity, it became an object of great abhorrence.

People have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned things called books, but even to read them!

The old owl no longer hooted, and the water-oaks had ceased to moan as they bent their heads.

Like many other Yankee notions, it did not thrive here, and the humming of those bees soon ceased.

As he was a great worker all his life, “Busy,” or “ Benjamin Ceased” would significantly express his death-date.

As the impressive progress continued the revellers ceased their revels and followed in the wake of Aristide.

The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.