Crossword-Solution: DESISTS 7 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

We have 23 clues for the answer “DESISTS”

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Stops doing what one's doing 1 answer
Quits it 1 answer
Partner of "ceases" 1 answer
Goes into stoppage time? 1 answer
Ceases to act 1 answer
Calls it off 1 answer
Calls a truce 1 answer
Stops an action 1 answer
Stops as a result of a court order, say 1 answer
Lays off 3 answers
Cools it 3 answers
Cuts it out 3 answers
Abstains 5 answers
Leaves off 7 answers
Refrains 7 answers
Calls it quits 7 answers
Halts 8 answers
Discontinues 10 answers
Ceases 10 answers
Knocks off 12 answers
Cuts out 13 answers
Quits 15 answers
Stops 19 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESISTS (5)

Yet when once the stamp of poetry has been put upon a cry that is as old as humanity, prose desists from rivalry, and is content to quote.
Style Walter Raleigh 2013
III For he is in the lists Contentious with the elements, whose dower First sprang him; for swift vultures to devour If he desists.
Poems, Volume 2 [of 3] George Meredith 2015
Villiers follows to Prag; desists not from his eloquent Letters, and earnest persuasions at Prag; but begins to perceive that the means of persuading Bruhl will be a much heavier kind of artillery.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle 2000
Even Count Badeni attitudinises for a moment; strikes a reflective Napoleonic attitude of fine picturesqueness--but soon thinks better of it and desists.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Mark Twain 2001
Will you hear me?” _Miss Spaulding_, beginning to play: “No.” _Miss Reed_, with burlesque wildness: “You shall!” _Miss Spaulding_ involuntarily desists.
The Register William D. Howells 2014

Quotes with DESISTS (1)

Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions.
Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 54 times in crossword archives (1972–2025).