Desist

Definition: Desist

Desist

Verb

1. Choose to refrain; "I abstain from alcohol".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "desist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Desist \De*sist"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Desisted; present participle verb or noun Desisting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Desist

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Inaction

Verb: not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive; abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias; rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain; (avoid) keep oneself from doing; remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist; (relinquish); stop; (cease); pause; (be quiet).

Prohibition

Hands off! keep off! hold! stop! desist! cease and desist! avast!

Relinquishment

Break off, leave off; desist; stop; (cease); hold one's hand, stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop.

Crosswords: Desist

Music

• Cease & Desist (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

We shall have, moreover, the same respite and in the same manner in rendering justice concerning the disafforestation or retention of those forests which Henry our father and Richard our brother afforested, and concerning the wardship of lands which are of the fief of another (namely, such wardships as we have hitherto had by reason of a fief which anyone held of us by knight's service), and concerning abbeys founded on other fiefs than our own, in which the lord of the fee claims to have right; and when we have returned, or if we desist from our expedition, we will immediately grant full justice to all who complain of such things. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

If damages are evident, the court will make a preliminary injunction and order the defendant to cease and desist from the offending advertising activity. (references)

Civil Liberties

Paraguay

A cease and desist order against "ABC Color" reporter Hugo Ruiz Olazar has been lifted. (references)

Zimbabwe

In 2000 Nyarota received a letter from an unknown organization threatening him if the newspaper did not desist from publishing articles critical of the Government and President Mugabe in particular. (references)

Honduras

When the news media attempted to report in depth on national politicians or official corruption, they continued to face obstacles, such as external pressures to desist from their investigations, artificially tight reporting deadlines, and a lack of access to Government information and independent sources. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Thus, U.S. companies found doing business with SDNTs will be notified by OFAC to cease and desist. (references)

Belgium

Whatever their qualifications or title, persons are considered statutory representatives if they exercise their activity as a sustained independent profession and fulfill the following conditions: 1) engage in the activity of a sales representative for the account of one or more employers; 2) desist from executing commercial operations on their own behalf; 3) institute mutual commitments with employers regarding the nature of the goods or services offered for sale, the region of activity or the category of clients, and the rate of compensation. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

In 2000 the military authorities appealed to the public to desist from involving the military in solving personal disputes. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

In most cases, inspectors attempt to reach agreements and have employers desist from labor law violations before levying fines equivalent to $155 (400 reais) per violation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "desist": cease and desist order ♦ desist from ♦ desist from doing. Additional references.

Ending with "desist": cease-and-desist.

Albanian

pushoj (cease, die, discontinue, dismiss, give over, hush, intermit, pacify, pass, pause, quiet down, quieten, quit, rest, shut down, Stow), ndërpres (abort, break, break up, call, cease, cut off, discontinue, heckle, intercept, interjaculate, intermit, interrupt, intersect, leave off, punctuate, stop, strangulate, suspend). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كف عن (abstain from, cease, forbear, leave off, refrain), ‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, cede, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏أقلع عن (abandon, get off, leave off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въздържам се (forgone, keep one's temper, restrain oneself), преставам (cease, fall out, finish, leave off, lift, quit, stop, subside). (various references)

Chinese 

停止 (Cease, Ceased, Ceasing, Cessation, Descend, Descended, Descending, Desisted, Desisting, stoppage, stopped, stopped-up, stopping, Stopping-out). (various references)

Czech

upustit od (desist from, opt). (various references)

Dutch

bevel om iets te doen (cease and desist order, mandatory, restrictive injunction), bevel om iets niet te doen (cease and desist order, mandatory, restrictive injunction), bevel om iets na telaten (cease and desist order, mandatory, restrictive injunction). (various references)

Farsi 

دست کشیدن (Cease, Resign), دست برداشتن از, بازایستادن . (various references)

Finnish

luopua (abandon, give up, leave off, relinquish). (various references)

French

se quitter, s'arrêter, cesser. (various references)

German

ablassen (abandon, blow off, discard, discount, drain, drain off, draining, empty, exhale, knock off, leave off, let off, rebate, surcease, to desist, to drain, to surcease). (various references)

Greek 

παύω (cease, depose, pause, stop), παραιτούμαι (abdicate, abnegate, disclaim, forgo, give up, go without, leave, quit, relinquish, relinquish to, resign, resign from, waive), απέχω (abstain, be distant, eschew, forbear, forgo, hold off, refrain, stand off, to be off work). (various references)

Hebrew 

לח�"ול מן- (abstain), לח�"ול (cease, leave off, let up, stop), ל�"רפות (forsake, lay off, let up, relax, slack, temper, unhand). (various references)

Hungarian

eláll valamitõl. (various references)

Indonesian

berhenti (cease, pause, quit, resign, stop). (various references)

Italian

desistere (give up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

思い止まる (to desist from, to give up), 思い止どまる (to desist from, to give up), 思いとどまる (to desist from, to give up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもいとどまる (to desist from, to give up). (various references)

Manx

scuirr (abort, adjourn, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop). (various references)

Pig Latin

esistday

Portuguese

desistir (abdicate, back down, back off, depart, forsake, give up, leave, off, quit), renunciar (abandon, abdicate, abjure, abnegate, depart, disclaim, foregoing, fossa, give up, renounce, resign, surrender, waive), ceder (abandon, assign, break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, dispose of, folder, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knucklebone, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

înceta de a mai (desist from). (various references)

Russian 

переставать (cease, cease to). (various references)

Scottish

sguir (cease, stop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prestati (cease, cut out, discontinue, end, intermit, knock off, leave, quit, surcease). (various references)

Spanish

desistir (renounce, resign). (various references)

Swedish

upphöra (cease, come to an end, end, expire, finish off, finish up, give up, go, lapse, pass, pass over, stop), avstå (abstain, cede, give up, refrain, relinquish, resign). (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw). (various references)

Ukranian 

утримуватися (abstain, forbear, forego, forgo, hold back, refrain from, restrain oneself, waive, withhold), припиняти (abate, adjourn, cease, discontinue, end, give over, leave off, nip, stash, stop, surcease), переставати (cease, cheese, give over, leave off). (various references)

Welsh

peidio (cease, refrain, stop). (various references)

abscedat, abscedentibus, absisto, deseram, deserant, deserat, desere, deserit, desieris, desierunt, desiit, desinam, desinant, desinas, desinat, desine, desines, desinet, desinis, desinite, desino, desino (desiit), desisset, desit, desiveris, desivimus, desivit. (various references)

superceder. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "desist": desistance, desistances, desisted, desisting, desists. (additional references)

Words ending with "desist": geodesist. (additional references)

Words containing "desist": geodesists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Desist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daoist, Daysit, decisi, decist, Decst, dehist, delist, denist, densis, desat, deseast, desiate, desic, desilt, desis, desista, desize, Dessi, dessin, dessist, dexis, disast, disist, edoist, Edsvs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deists.

-1 letter: deist, diets, dites, edits, sides, sited, sites, stied, sties, tides.

-2 letters: dies, diet, diss, dite, dits, edit, ides, seis, sets, side, site, sits, teds, tide, tied, ties.

-3 letters: die, dis, dit, eds, ess, ids, its, sei, set, sis, sit, ted, tie, tis.

-4 letters: de, ed, es, et, id, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: bedsits, delists, desists, digests, disseat, dissect, dissent, dissert, divests, snidest, strides, studies, tissued.

+2 letters: assisted, bilsteds, cestoids, dashiest, dentists, deposits, desisted, despites, destains, destines, diastase, diastems, diasters, diesters, diestrus, disaster, discepts, dishiest, disjects, disputes, disrates, disseats, dissects, dissents, disserts, distaste, distaves, distends, distomes, distress, ditsiest, duelists, duskiest, dustiest, editress, feudists, fideists, insisted, mindsets, misdates, misedits, mistends, modistes, osteoids, outsides, resisted, sandiest, sedgiest, seediest, shadiest, sidestep, sistered, solidest, staidest, steadies, steroids, stipends, striders, studdies, studiers, sturdies, stylised, subedits, sudsiest, tideless, tidiness, topsides.

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