Desist
verb
To stop doing something.
They were ordered to desist from making noise after 10pm.
Often appears as...
- cease and desist
- desist from action
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To stop doing something.
They were ordered to desist from making noise after 10pm.
Often appears as...
- cease and desist
- desist from action
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Legally Binding
Often used in legal contexts where failure to desist has consequences.
The company received a cease and desist letter for copyright infringement.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Requests
Used when formally asking someone to stop an action, more polite than 'stop'.
Parents must desist from speaking during the school performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Persistent Action
Used when referring to stopping an action that has been ongoing.
Despite complaints, they did not desist in playing loud music.
Pro Tip 1/3Legally Binding
Often used in legal contexts where failure to desist has consequences.
The company received a cease and desist letter for copyright infringement.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Requests
Used when formally asking someone to stop an action, more polite than 'stop'.
Parents must desist from speaking during the school performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Persistent Action
Used when referring to stopping an action that has been ongoing.
Despite complaints, they did not desist in playing loud music.
Pro Tip 1/3Legally Binding
Often used in legal contexts where failure to desist has consequences.
The company received a cease and desist letter for copyright infringement.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Requests
Used when formally asking someone to stop an action, more polite than 'stop'.
Parents must desist from speaking during the school performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Persistent Action
Used when referring to stopping an action that has been ongoing.
Despite complaints, they did not desist in playing loud music.
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Video examples
Why All Melodies Should...
And the hard part about fact questions is they're notoriously hard to resolve at an early stage in the case, because when you think about a life span of a lawsuit, it starts out as a cease and desist letter. You need to pay me or I'll sue you. It goes forward and it's going to take years. And the thing about fact questions, they don't get resolved until the end of that process.
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countless cease and desist letters for unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property now the gray album is a remix it is new media created from old media it was made using these three techniques copy transform and combine
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Why All Melodies Should...
And the hard part about fact questions is they're notoriously hard to resolve at an early stage in the case, because when you think about a life span of a lawsuit, it starts out as a cease and desist letter. You need to pay me or I'll sue you. It goes forward and it's going to take years. And the thing about fact questions, they don't get resolved until the end of that process.
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Embrace the remix -...
countless cease and desist letters for unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property now the gray album is a remix it is new media created from old media it was made using these three techniques copy transform and combine
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Quote examples
Paul Keating
Australian Politician
I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.
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Dalai Lama
Tibetan Leader
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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Horace
Roman Poet
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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Ezra Pound
American Poet
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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Michael Arad
Israeli Architect
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
Quote examples
Paul Keating
Australian Politician
I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.
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Dalai Lama
Tibetan Leader
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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Horace
Roman Poet
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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Ezra Pound
American Poet
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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Michael Arad
Israeli Architect
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
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