[verb] [I] [formal] - to stop (doing esp. something that someone else does not want you to do)They have been told that their protest has no chance of being successful, but they refuse to desist.The soldiers have been ordered to desist from firing their guns.The high winds are expected to desist tomorrow.
DESIST
Meaning of DESIST in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012