cease to exist
End all being
To cease to exist is to stop being—to pass from existence into nonexistence.
The phrase applies to things that once were real but no longer are: The company ceased to exist after the merger.
It's more emphatic than simply "end" or "disappear," carrying finality: Without funding, the program will cease to exist.
- expireCease to be valid
- perishCease to exist
- meet one's endTo die
- pass awayEuphemism for dying
- deathCessation of life
dead and gone · annihilation · nothingness · demise · oblivion · die · erasure · nullity · disintegration · turn to dust · obsolescence · vacuity · extinction event · termination · extinct languages · void · vanishing · end
temporal trajectory
cease to existcome into being
Begin to exist
emerge · arise · be born · originate · materialize
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