abstain
Meaning of abstain
verb
- restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something.
she intends to abstain from sex before marriage
- formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion.
forty-one voted with the Opposition, and some sixty more abstained
late Middle English: from Old French abstenir, from Latin abstinere, from ab- ‘from’ + tenere ‘hold’.
Information about abstain
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of abstain is: abstains.
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Hyphenation of abstain
ab-stain
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- abstain is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
abstain synonyms
Meaning refrain:
abstain antonyms
Meaning give or register a vote:
Translation of abstain
- Italian: astenersi
- Spanish: abstenerse
- Portuguese: abster-se
- German: enthalten
Anagrams of abstain
Words that rhyme with abstain
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