Usually means: Ceasing or stopping a specific action.
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  1. desistive: Wordnik
  2. desistive: Wiktionary
  3. Desistive: Dictionary.com
  4. Desistive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. desistive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Desistive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. desistive: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Desistive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (obsolete) conclusive or final

Similar:
over, desinent, disterminate, over with, abative, eliminatory, dissuasionary, finished, extinctive, down for the count, more...

Opposite:
persistent, tenacious, determined, unyielding

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Similar:
over, desinent, disterminate, over with, abative, eliminatory, dissuasionary, finished, extinctive, down for the count, more...

Opposite:
persistent, tenacious, determined, unyielding



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