The Clue
Partner of desist (5 letter answer)
The Answer
CEASE
Tags
Notes
The answer CEASE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 130 puzzles.
Related Clues
Culminate
Desist
___ and desist
Discontinue
End
___-fire
Halt
Quit
Stop
Terminate
Come to a halt
Cut out
Desist's partner
Fire preceder
Knock off
Leave off
Let up
Put an end to
Shut down
"Stop it!"
Do no more
Knock it off
"To ___ upon the midnight . . . ": Keats
Definition
CEASE as a noun:
1. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
CEASE as a verb:
1. (discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off) = put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
2. (end, stop, finish, terminate, cease) = have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"