forbear
hold back
save
spare
cheese
damp
offhold
bear off
avoid
forgo
cut out
keep from
abjure
leave alone
help
keep one's eyes off
stand back
stay away
keep away
keep one's distance
keep one's hands off
hold in hand
keep
disencourage
have no time for
taboo
stay
nonabstaining
suppressive
stopless
dispense with
forego
shun
waive
eschew
inevitable
relinquish
foreswear
unrepudiable
para-
help oneself
keep away from
refrainment
irrepudiable
umbeschew
abstain
nonpar
persist
persevere
hang in
set one's face against
hang on
hold on
nonprohibitive
omissive
undisfranchised
pinion
unglue
prohibitive
overdiscourage
unrig
hold one's fire
fight shy of
refrain
avoidant
sit on
overslip
scare off
untolerised
avoidment
avoidableness
refraining
avoiding
nonavoidant
draw a sober breath
decline
unavoidant
trust
unrefusing
avoidance
discouraging
refrainer
restrainer
opt out
nonavoidance
keep one's hands to oneself
handcuff
turning away
unaffect
shunning
dodging
proscribe
indispensable
underrestrain
dissuade

English words for 'to refrain from'

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