| 单词 | unceasingly |
| 释义 | unceasingly (once / 3036 pages) adv When you do something unceasingly, you do it without stopping. Your dog might bark unceasingly every time you leave the house, keeping it up until you come home again. The adverb unceasingly literally means "without ceasing," or "without stopping." To do something unceasingly also implies that you're pretty determined and focused as well. You might, for example, devote your life to working unceasingly to end child poverty and hunger. Both unceasingly and cease, or "stop," have a Latin root word, cessare, "go slow, be idle, leave off, or give over." WORD FAMILYunceasing: unceasingly+/cease: ceased, ceaseless, ceases, ceasing, cessation/ceaseless: ceaselessly, ceaselessness/ceasing: unceasing/cessation: cessations USAGE EXAMPLESNow the phone was ringing unceasingly as Stern photographed crosser 106 — his face, his body, any identifying details — and prepared him for an autopsy. Washington Post(Nov 19, 2016) “A family is an unceasingly fluid and flexible organism,” she said. New York Times(Sep 30, 2016) Both young nurses polished the glass jars unceasingly. Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961) adv with unflagging resolve Syn ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, incessantly, unendingly |
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