cease

C1Academic AWL-9
UK /siːs/US /siːs/

Meaning

verb
to stop happening or existing; to stop something from happening or existing
Welfare payments cease as soon as an individual starts a job.

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and so they eventually just ceased to exist.

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and so they eventually just ceased to exist.

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