What is another word for "abstain"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "abstain": abnegation, abstainer, abstemious, abstemiousness, abstinence, abstinent, alcoholic, alone, are, aside, away, back, cast, compass, deny, destroy, desuetude, discard, dismantle, dismiss, dispense, disusage, disuse, done, driver, dry, eject, enough, for, forbear, forbearance, frugal, frugality, give, gymnosophist, habit, had, has, have, heave.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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