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synonyms for refraining

  • abstain
  • avoid
  • cease
  • curb
  • desist
  • forgo
  • halt
  • renounce
  • resist
  • restrain
  • arrest
  • check
  • eschew
  • forbear
  • inhibit
  • interrupt
  • keep
  • pass
  • quit
  • stop
  • withhold
  • be temperate
  • give up
  • go on the wagon
  • leave off
  • not do
  • pass up
  • sit out
  • take the cure
  • take the pledge
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antonyms for refraining

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  • carry on
  • continue
  • indulge
  • keep on
  • use
  • aid
  • allow
  • assist
  • encourage
  • help
  • let go
  • release
  • do
  • go ahead
  • jump in
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How to use refraining in a sentence

I can tell you’ve got a longing to sally forth, a-thronging—I ask you, please refrain.
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The agreement called on providers to refrain from shutting off business or residential customers who could not pay, for example, and suspended potential late fees.
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Still, some political operatives doubted that companies would be able to refrain from PAC donations for long.
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That advice has been a constant refrain in a pandemic responsible for more than 350,000 deaths in the United States.
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Hospital leaders, front-line workers and experts condemned Ducey for refraining from imposing sweeping mitigation measures.
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A common refrain across major luxury brands’ earnings calls this year was that sales were tanking everywhere except China.
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Campbell Supervisor Matt Cline aimed to solve that issue by rewriting the resolution so that it simply prohibits using any county money or employees to enforce the restrictions and requests that the sheriff refrain from doing so.
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Refraining from vowing to him, man sustains a character no higher than the wicked who restrain prayer before God.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
What had happened to her that she should be thus beside herself, and hardly capable of refraining from open tears?
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPE
Abstain′er, specially one who does not take alcoholic drinks; Absten′tion, a refraining.
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WORDS RELATED TO REFRAINING

  • abnegation
  • abstaining
  • abstemiousness
  • asceticism
  • avoidance
  • chastity
  • continence
  • fasting
  • forbearance
  • frugality
  • moderation
  • refraining
  • renunciation
  • self-control
  • self-denial
  • self-restraint
  • soberness
  • sobriety
  • teetotalism
  • temperance
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.