Desists
7 lettersverbmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
Third-person singular of desist: to stop doing something, especially in response to a warning or formal request.
“She desists from interrupting colleagues once warned about it by her manager.”
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Wordle
Contains three S's spread throughout the word, an unusual density that rarely occurs in Wordle
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Worth 8 points but three S's are rarely available together, DESIST without the final S scores 7
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