ceasing
やめる
解説 Definition
ceasing は cease（やめる、終わる）の現在分詞・動名詞です。活動や状態が続かなくなることを表し、やや硬い文章で使われることがあります。
Ceasing is the present participle or gerund of cease and describes an activity, process, or condition coming to an end or being stopped. It is relatively formal and can function in a continuous verb phrase or as a noun-like expression.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
ceasing は原形 cease「やめる・終わる」の現在分詞・動名詞で、語末の黙字 e を落として -ing を付けます。発音は /ˈsiːsɪŋ/。stop より硬い語なので、rain is ceasing「雨がやみつつある」や ceasing production「生産をやめること」と結び付けましょう。
Start with the base verb cease, meaning “stop” or “come to an end.” To form ceasing, drop the final silent e before adding -ing; pronounce it /SEE-sing/, /ˈsiːsɪŋ/. Picture rain gradually stopping in “The rain is ceasing,” then contrast the gerund in “ceasing production,” where the phrase names the act of stopping. Cease is more formal than stop, so ceasing often appears in reports, official decisions, and careful descriptions of a process ending rather than in casual commands.
例文
The rain is ceasing at last.
雨がようやくやみかけています。
The company is ceasing work on the old system.
その会社は古いシステムでの作業をやめようとしています。
Ceasing production was difficult, but the factory had no other choice.
生産をやめるのは難しいことでしたが、その工場にはほかに選択肢がありませんでした。
ceasing の類義語・関連語
ceasing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
「ceasing」は cease ＋ -ing で、「やむこと・やめつつあること」を表す。cease は古フランス語 cesser、さらにラテン語 cessare にさかのぼり、その元の cedere は「退く・離れる」なので、「動きが引いて止まる」と考えると腑に落ちる。関連語は cessation、recede。
Ceasing is formed from cease by dropping its final silent e and adding the participial suffix -ing. Cease entered Middle English through Old French cesser from Latin cessare, “to stop, delay, or be inactive.” Cessare is related to cedere, “to go, yield, or withdraw.” The historical sense of withdrawing from an action developed naturally into the modern meaning of bringing it to an end.
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