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Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

Spare :: Spare (v. i.) To desist; to stop; to refrain.

Desistive :: Desistive (a.) Final; conclusive; ending.

Recede :: Recede (v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition..

Leave :: Leave (v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

Desistance :: Desistance (n.) The act or state of desisting; cessation.

Desisted :: Desisted (imp. & p. p.) of Desis.

Cease :: Cease (v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased..

Absist :: Absist (v. i.) To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.

Depart :: Depart (v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading..

Blin :: Blin (v. t. & i.) To stop; to cease; to desist.

Desist :: Desist (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

Geodesist :: Geodesist (n.) One versed in geodesy.

Rest :: Rest (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion..

Relinquish :: Relinquish (v. t.) To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit..

Desisting :: Desisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desis.

Leave :: Leave (v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Expostulate :: Expostulate (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with..

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