abstain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Keep or withhold oneself.
2. fiil Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.

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

3. fiil To refrain from drinking alcohol.

   “… she had made Bunting abstain very early in their acquaintance. … Glad she was now that he had taken the pledge as a younger man; but for that nothing would have kept him from the drink during the bad times they had gone through.”

4. fiil Fast (not eat for a period).
5. fiil Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.

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

6. fiil Hinder; keep back; withhold.

   “Whether he abstain men from marying [sic].”