cease to exist
Frequency: 6.98.9 per million words
A formal way of saying that something stops existing.
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Examples (10)
- Many species of dinosaur ceased to exist millions of years ago.
- Without proper funding, the charity will cease to exist.
- Once the last speaker of the language dies, their oral traditions will cease to exist.
- The old kingdom ceased to exist after the revolution.
- If we address the root cause, the problem should cease to exist.
- Some philosophers argue that an object ceases to exist when it is no longer perceived.
- That type of floppy disk has effectively ceased to exist.
- After the fire, all physical copies of the manuscript ceased to exist.
- His legal rights as a minor would cease to exist on his eighteenth birthday.
- In that blinding flash of light, the entire city simply ceased to exist.