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How to pronounce surcease in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cessation
Type of halt, stop
Has types legal separation, separation

Examples of surcease

surcease
Through expansions and recessions that percentage has fallen almost without surcease.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Looking for surcease from the storm of BALCO developments that have pounded the public lately?
From the sfgate.com
She gets surcease only when she is sound asleep, and for sound sleep she often has to take drugs.
From the time.com
For Richard Nixon, the sacrifice of his office very likely will not bring even a week of surcease.
From the time.com
High-level meetings with creditor nations bring no surcease.
From the economist.com
In a Fellini film, life is a circus without surcease.
From the time.com
The broad report found no surcease of the climate trends that have led to widespread concern about the future.
From the nytimes.com
Silence, like the peace of death that he constantly invokes, might seem like surcease from such unremitting sorrow.
From the time.com
She blends these elements into a consummately poignant portrait of a woman for whom drugs are the only surcease from sorrow.
From the time.com
I believe that part of Brezhnev sincerely sought, if not peace in the Western sense, then surcease from the danger and risks and struggles of a lifetime.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Cessation: a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder"
  • The cessation of something or someone; To come to an end; to desist