DESISTED (FROM) Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

desisted (from)

verb

past tense of desist (from)

as in stopped

to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end ordered to desist from using the copyrighted music without permission

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During the video, a person wearing a gorilla suit walked directly through the scene, stopped, beat their chest, and walked away.

— Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Towa might not share her girlfriend’s passion for musicals, but that hasn’t stopped Rapp from dragging her to them anyway.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of stopped

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The site became available on the heels of two bankruptcies and the ultimate implosion of Rite-Aid, which ceased operations in October 2025 after closing all of its remaining physical stores.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
Her room was undecorated and gray, crowded with machines whose chorus of irritating beeping never ceased.

— Anna Tsioulias, STAT, 29 July 2026

Definition of ceased

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Firefighters also halted a blaze in a non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, and officials reported damage to commercial and residential property in two additional districts.

— Greg Myre, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
Farther down the same rice belt, Indonesia's agriculture ministry counts more than 30,000 hectares of rice hit by drought, over 12,000 of them a total loss, in a country that recently halted rice imports in the name of self-sufficiency.

— Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of halted

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Conversely, your favorite game might get left off the list, so if that's the case, be sure to scream at me about it in the comments section.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
On July 9, Block settled with 46 states for $45 million over Cash App’s fraud controls, a coordinated state action that picked up where a January 2025 CFPB order left off.

— Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of left off

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This is designed to cut off the oxygen supply – useful in kitchens, cars, camping and more.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
The organisms would have to have been either blown in by the wind or left over from a time when seawater was cut off from the ocean as water levels fell and the glacier moved into place over it at some point around two million years ago.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026

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