verb

definition

Keep or withhold oneself.

definition

Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.

example

In order to improve his health, Rob decided to abstain from smoking.

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Fast (not eat for a period).

definition

Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.

example

I abstain from this vote, as I have no particular preference.

definition

Hinder; keep back; withhold.

Examples of abstains in a Sentence

From all this a man is delivered who abstains from judging one state to be preferable to another.

The Saxon Confession of Wittenberg, June 1551, while protesting against the same errors, equally abstains from trying to define narrowly how Christ is present in the sacrament.

His model was Xenophon, whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains from an excessive use of simile and metaphor, and his style is concise and simple.

George Eliot Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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