Crossword-Solution: DESISTED 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Desisted imp. & p. p. of Desist

We have 9 clues for the answer “DESISTED”

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Forbore 1 answer
Stopped, in legalese 1 answer
Left off 3 answers
Refrained from 4 answers
Ceased 8 answers
"Cut it out!" 16 answers
discontinued 23 answers
Stopped 41 answers
Quit 75 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESISTED (5)

One of the men desisted and turned towards him, and my brother, realising from his antagonist’s face that a fight was unavoidable, and being an expert boxer, went into him forthwith and sent him down against the wheel of the chaise.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
For a long time I tried to engage him in conversation upon other matters, but he would not talk, and so, at length, I desisted.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
For half an hour they called to him to return, but as he did not answer them they at last desisted, and sought the sleeping-mats within their huts.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The chink widened a very, very little, and hastily I desisted; I had done enough to show that the pipe was not fixed in the masonry at the lower side.
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993
Time and again as the afternoon wore away Pesita made attempts to get men close up to the house; but in each instance they were driven back, until at last they desisted from their efforts to fire the house or rush it, and contented themselves with firing an occasional shot through the windows opposite them.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

Quotes with DESISTED (1)

Laisha had got a glimpse of the vast ocean that lay before her. She could either eatch it recede from her sight or plunge into it. It was not possible to take the risk of plunging headlong into the ocean. No one viewed the ocean to be drowned into it. Everyone caught only a glimpse of it, exulted in having got this farand returned home with renewed zest. The knowledge that the ocean existed was overwhelming enough. One could wallow in the idea that there was indeed a further …
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
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Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1970–2016).