Desist vs Forbid - What's the difference?
desist | forbid |
To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from .
* 1906 , , part I, ch I,
To disallow; to proscribe.
* 1908 ,
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
* Shakespeare
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
As verbs the difference between desist and forbid
is that desist is to cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from while forbid is to disallow; to proscribe.desist
English
Verb
(en verb)- One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.
Anagrams
*forbid
English
Verb
- Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden .
- the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
- Have I not forbid her my house?
- An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
- a blaze of glory that forbids the sight
- He shall live a man forbid .