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
“There always wur a path athwert thuck mead in the ould volk’s time” is their one reply endlessly reiterated; and the owner of the property, rather than make himself unpopular, desists from persuasion.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
For all churches in which that religion is accepted also teach that there is no salvation unless man examines himself, sees and acknowledges his sins, repents, desists from them, and begins a new life.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by William F. Wunsch
