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"ref": "1921, Annual Report of the Federal Trade Commission, page 173:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2005, Gerry Shishin Wick, The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 307:",
"text": "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 ...",
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"To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from)."
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"word": "stem the tide"
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"(transitive, intransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from)."
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "въздържам се"
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"roman": "spiram",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
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"roman": "tíngzhǐ",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "停止"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "終止"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "zhōngzhǐ",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "终止"
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "ophouden"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "lakata"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "lopettaa"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "aufhören"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "eláll"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "felhagy"
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{
"alt": "やめる",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "yameru",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "止める"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "dēsistō"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "kāti"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "whakakāti"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "whakamutu"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "zaprzestać"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vozdérživatʹsja",
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"word": "возде́рживаться"
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "upustiť"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "zdržať sa"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "prestať"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "vazgeçmek"
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"roman": "utrymuvatysja",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "утримуватися"
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"roman": "prypynjaty",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "припиняти"
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{
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "perestavaty",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "переставати"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "ngừng"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "thôi"
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"code": "vi",
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"note": "from doing something",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "nghỉ"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "bỏ"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"note": "e.g. alcohol",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "chừa"
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"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1921, Annual Report of the Federal Trade Commission, page 173:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Gerry Shishin Wick, The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 307:",
"text": "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 ...",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from)."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"cease",
"cease"
],
[
"stop",
"stop"
],
[
"from",
"from"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "desist"
}
],
"tags": [
"formal",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɪˈsɪst/"
},
{
"ipa": "/dɪˈzɪst/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪst"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "absist"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"topics": [
"nautical",
"transport"
],
"word": "belay"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "blin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "break off"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "cease"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "cess"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang"
],
"word": "cheese it"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "come to an end"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "desist"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "discontinue"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "forbear"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "halt"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "have done with"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "hold"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "leave off"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "let up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "rest"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "stanch"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "staunch"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "stay"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "stop"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "surcease"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:desist",
"word": "terminate"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "въздържам се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "spiram",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "спирам"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "停止"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tíngzhǐ",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "停止"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "終止"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhōngzhǐ",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "终止"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "přestat (s čím)"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ustat (v čem)"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "upustit (od čeho)"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "ophouden"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "lakata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "lopettaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "aufhören"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "eláll"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "felhagy"
},
{
"alt": "やめる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yameru",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "止める"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "dēsistō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "kāti"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "whakakāti"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "whakamutu"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "zaprzestać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "desistir"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozdérživatʹsja",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "возде́рживаться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozderžátʹsja",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "воздержа́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prekraščátʹ",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прекраща́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prekratítʹ",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "прекрати́ть"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "upustiť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "zdržať sa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "prestať"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "desistir"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "avstå"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "vazgeçmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "utrymuvatysja",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "утримуватися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prypynjaty",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "припиняти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perestavaty",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "переставати"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "ngừng"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "thôi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"note": "from doing something",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "nghỉ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "bỏ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"note": "e.g. alcohol",
"sense": "to cease to proceed or act",
"word": "chừa"
}
],
"word": "desist"
}
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"path": [
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"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "desist",
"trace": ""
}
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