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.