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desist
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  • Harry hooked down at his own wand. He could see finger marks all over it. He gathered a fistful of robe from his knee and tried to rub it clean surreptitiously. Several gold sparks shot out of the end of it. Fleur Delacour gave him a very patronizing look, and he desisted.  (source)
    desisted = stopped
  • Scientists who've gone ahead with research involving the breast-cancer genes without Myriad's permission have found themselves on the receiving end of cease-and-desist letters and threats of litigation.  (source)
    desist = stop doing something
  • My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier:  (source)
    desist = cease (stop)
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  • DESIST!  (source)
    DESIST = stop doing something
  • Adye desisted and thought.  (source)
    desisted = stopped
  • At length, desisting, all ceased together, gathered together, all sighed together; all together gave off an aimless gust of lamentation to which some door in the kitchen replied; swung wide; admitted nothing; and slammed to.†  (source)
    desisting = stopping
  • ROS desists.†  (source)
    desists = stops
  • Desist from thy lecture.  (source)
    Desist = stop doing something
  • Natasha only desisted when she had been told that there would be pineapple ice.  (source)
    desisted = stopped
  • "That's so," assented the deserter, reluctantly desisting.†  (source)
    desisting = stopping
  • But he soon desists and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his knees and his head on his arms.†  (source)
    desists = stops
  • Due to the preponderance of such agricultural methods in the cultivation of illegal substances, we order you to cease and desist immediately....†  (source)
  • Faint and sick with the pain of my injured arm, bewildered by the surprise, and yet conscious how easily this threat could be put in execution, I desisted, and tried to ease my arm were it ever so little.  (source)
    desisted = stopped
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