SURCEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surcease mean? 

• SURCEASE (noun)
  The noun SURCEASE has 1 sense:

1. a stopping

  Familiarity information: SURCEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURCEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stopping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

cessation; surcease

Context example:

a cessation of the thunder

Hypernyms ("surcease" is a kind of...):

halt; stop (the event of something ending)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surcease"):

legal separation; separation ((law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order))

 Context examples 

This surcease from life had failed him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the past he had liked comfort and surcease from pain, disliked discomfort and pain, and he had adjusted his actions accordingly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The good stands for all things that bring easement and satisfaction and surcease from pain.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He lived every moment of his waking hours, and he lived in his sleep, his subjective mind rioting through his five hours of surcease and combining the thoughts and events of the day into grotesque and impossible marvels.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)