abnegate, cop out, do without, evade the issue, hold aloof from, keep back, let go by, pass up, reject, sit it out, stand neuter, withhold
Definitionv. refrain from voting
Last update: November 1, 2015
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Members were also instructed to completely abstain from all drugs. [verb]
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Because I cannot abstain from eating meat, I would not make a good vegetarian. [verb]
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The young man would not reform his habits, or abstain from dangerous intrigues. [Please select]
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He has been adviced to abstain from smoking. [verb]
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I do admire the way you abstain from filling up with touches that mean nothing. [Please select]
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The effort that you give without cessation I simply abstain from giving. [Please select]
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Marie abstained from commenting on this remark, and Friedrich was silent and comfortable. [Please select]
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At present I have most carefully abstained from talking with her on the subject. [Please select]
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We abstain from entering on details of the battle. [Please select]
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If only they might abstain from the last, worst crime of desecrating his image. [verb]
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Nebenchari, the oculist, continued to attend the queen, but so carefully abstained from all intercourse with the Persians, that he became a proverb among them for his gloomy, silent ways. [verb]
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