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
The names of Prue, Freddy, Oxford, force themselves into her record of expenditure, making nonsense of it, defacing her neat columns; and after half an hour's vain efforts, she desists with a sigh.
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
Nor, thus forborne, The youth desists, but with insulting scorn Provokes the ling'ring prince, whose patience, tir'd, Gave place; and all his breast with fury fir'd.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
