cease fire
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stop engaging in hostile acts, particularly those involving firearms.
noun
Example Sentences
- "I also encourage all of us to begin the cease fire in America's culture war by taking the initiative of inviting someone from the other camp to lunch."
- "in El Salvador, they declared a cease fire after ten years. Why didn't they think of that at the beginning?"
- "On August 4 there was a cease fire in Java, the battle had lasted all of two weeks."
- "To date around eighteen armed cease fires have been agreed between the army and armed groups of the following ethnicities..."
Inflected Forms
ceases fire (present, singular)
ceasing fire (participle, present)
ceased fire (participle, past)
ceased fire (past)
cease fires (plural)