Desist

Quick meaning: Desist is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).

Meaning

(ambitransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).

Example Sentences

Please desist from telephoning me at this number.

After hearing[,] an order was entered requiring respondent to cease and desist the practice complained of under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission act.

One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.

Desist the kind of thinking that gets you into trouble. Thinking is in itself fine, but grabbing onto thoughts and images of your self will bring you suffering. Once you learn how to desist, how to let go of your ego-grasping mind, then cease thinking .

Word Forms

• desists
• desisting
• desisted

Synonyms for desist

Depending on context, synonyms include absist, belay, blin, break off, cease, cess.

Antonyms for desist

Common opposites include continue, persevere, persist, proceed, have, take.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include refrain, abstain, cease, discontinue, stop, leave.

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