desist
verb (used without object)
to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
desists
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present tense formof desist (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Discovery were the latest studios to send cease and desists letter to ByteDance on Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
“An honest conversation about coal and its miners needs to be had, and we should neither cease or desists from having it.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2017
"I've gotten cease and desists before," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
He however desists dismayed when, as he is dancing with a witch of seductive loveliness, a red mouse jumps out of her mouth.
From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by H. B. (Henry Bernard) Cotterill
When a man at last reaches the social summit he desists from further efforts at improvement.
From The Economic Functions of Vice by John McElroy
