9 Letter Words for Desisting
desisting, indigests
8 Letter Words for Desisting
dingiest, indigest, insisted, tidiness
7 Letter Words for Desisting
designs, dieting, digests, dingies, disgest, disnest, dissent, dissing, dissite, editing, ignited, ignites, indiges, indites, ingests, insides, nidgets, sdeigns, seising, sidings, signets, signist, sistine, sisting, sitings, snidest, steding, stinged, tidings, tineids
6 Letter Words for Desisting
deigns, deiist, deisin, deists, design, desist, destin, dieing, diesis, digest, digits, dinges, diting, geists, gneiss, ideist, ignite, indies, indite, ingest, insets, inside, insist, insite, issite, nidget, sdeign, sdeins, seniti, sidest, siding, sients, sigint, signed, signet, singed, singes, sisted, sisten, siting, snides, steins, stends, stinge, stings, teiids, teinds, tessin, tidies, tiding, tineid, tinged, tinges, tingid, tinies
5 Letter Words for Desisting
deign, deist, dents, detin, diets, digit, digne, dines, dinge, dings, dints, distn, dites, edits, ensis, entsi, geist, geits, genii, genit, gents, gests, getid, gists, gites, gnide, ident, idest, idite, ignis, indie, inset, intis, issei, neist, nests, nides, nidge, nisei, nisse, nitid, sdein, segni, sends, sengi, senit, senti, sents, sesti, sides, siens, sient, siest, signs, sinds, sined, sines, singe, sings, sited, sites, sneds, snide, snies, snigs, snite, snits, ssing, steds, steid, stein, stend, steng, stens, stied, sties, stine, sting, teiid, teind, tends, tides, tiens, tiges, tinds, tined, tines, tinge, tingi, tings, tsine
4 Letter Words for Desisting
deis, deni, dens, dent, desi, dess, deti, detn, dies, diet, digs, dine, ding, dins, dint, dist, dite, dits, edit, ends, engs, ests, geds, gein, geit, gens, gent, gess, gest, gets, gids, gied, gien, gies, gins, gise, gist, gite, gits, ides, inde, init, inst, inti, isdn, ised, isis, isnt, neds, negs, ness, nest, neti, nets, nide, nidi, nids, nied, nies, nisi, nist, nits, segs, seis, seit, send, sens, sent, sets, side, sidi, sids, sien, sign, sind, sine, sing, sins, sise, sisi, sist, site, siti, sits, sned, snig, snit, ssed, sted, steg, sten, stge, stid, stie, teds, tegs, tend, teng, tens, tide, tidi, tids, tied, tien, ties, tige, tigs, tind, tine, ting, tins
3 Letter Words for Desisting
deg, dei, den, des, det, die, dig, din, dis, dit, eds, end, eng, ens, esd, ess, est, gds, ged, gen, get, gid, gie, gin, gis, git, gns, gtd, gte, ide, ids, ign, ind, ing, ins, int, ise, isn, ist, itd, its, ned, neg, nei, net, nid, nie, nig, nis, nit, sds, sed, seg, sei, sen, set, sgd, sie, sig, sin, sis, sit, sse, std, stg, ted, teg, ten, tes, tgn, tid, tie, tig, tin, tis, tng, tsi, tss
Definitions for Desisting
[1] to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
[2] (intr often foll by from ) to cease, as from an action; stop or abstain
Words related to Desisting
desistrelinquish, abstain, cease, forbear, quit, suspend, end, halt, avoid, discontinue, yield, pause, resign, abandon, surcease
Words nearby Desisting
desistdesirable, desire, desire under the elms, desired, desirous, desist, desk, desk calendar, desk clerk, desk copier, desk jobber
Origin of Desisting
1425–75; late Middle English < Old French desister < Latin dēsistere to leave off, equivalent to dē- de- + sistere to stand, place, akin to stāre to stand
Other words from Desisting
de·sist·ance , de·sist·ence , noun
non·de·sist·ance , noun
non·de·sist·ence , noun
non·de·sist·ing , adjective, noun
un·de·sist·ing , adjective
Word origin for Desisting
C15: from Old French desister, from Latin dēsistere to leave off, stand apart, from de- + sistere to stand, halt
Synonyms for Desisting
abstain, cease, relinquish, abandon, avoid, discontinue, end, forbear, halt, pause, quit, resign, suspend, yield, break off, give over, give up, have done with, knock off, leave off, not do, surcease
