desist

synonyms

abandon

abdicate

abjure

abort

acknowledge defeat

belay

cancel

cease

cease

cede

come off

cry quits

cut it out

cut out

desist from

discontinue

disuse

drop

drop it

end

forbear

forgo

forswear

give

give over

give up

halt

hand over

have done with

hold

knock it off

lay down

lay off

leave off

let go

nol-pros

not pursue with

pause

put behind one

quit

refrain

relinquish

renounce

resign

scrub

stay

stay

stop

stop

surrender

hyponyms

avoid

fast

keep off

teetotal

verb-forms

desisted

desisting

desists

rhymes

Liszt

assist

cist

coexist

consist

cyst

delist

dismissed

enlist

exist

fist

frist

gist

grist

hissed

insist

kissed

kist

list

midst

missed

mist

persist

pissed

preexist

quist

reminisced

resist

rist

schist

subsist

tryst

twist

wist

wrist

antonyms

continue