If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
例句
Ford never desisted from trying to persuade him to return to America...福特從未停止過勸說他返回美國。The magazine will desist from such language after receiving complaints...雜志接到投訴之后將杜絕使用此類語言。
英漢詞典釋義
vi.
停止
I asked him to desist from abusing me in private to newspaper editors.我要求他停止私下向各報館編輯誹謗我。