The Clue
___ fire (5 letter answer)
The Answer
CEASE
Tags
Notes
The answer CEASE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 130 puzzles.
Related Clues
Desist
Discontinue
___-fire
Halt
Intermit
Quit
Stop
Suspend
Terminate
Break off
Cut out
Desist's partner
"Hold it!"
Knock off
Leave off
Let up
Put an end to
Shut down
Do not continue
Knock it off
"To ___ upon the midnight . . . ": Keats
Definition
CEASE as a noun:
1. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
CEASE as a verb:
1. (discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off) = put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
2. (end, stop, finish, terminate, cease) = have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"