What are the antonyms for ABSTAIN?
- institute, commence, knuckle under, begin, bow, face, encourage, acquiesce, give in, have, want, capitulate, accept, start, inaugurate, surrender, initiate, use, yield, enter upon, set about, indulge, DO, continue, submit, allow, meet, embrace, originate, succumb, concede.
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Synonyms for ABSTAIN
- eject,
- lie down,
- holds back,
- Forbore,
- stimulation,
- bring to screeching halt,
- bottle out,
- surcease,
- avert,
- lay low,
- miss,
- denial,
- adopt,
- hold aloof from,
- lay aside,
- intermit,
- turn down,
- withhold oneself from,
- sat out,
- by-passed,
- keep lid on,
- action,
- spoil,
- pack in,
- beg to be excused,
- reins in,
- hold,
- shrink,
- swear off,
- keep from,
- give over,
- famishes,
- run for cover,
- restrain,
- stalemate,
- turn aside,
- not hear of,
- turnoff,
- hold in,
- by-passes,
- get on the water wagon,
- repel,
- inhibits,
- return,
- flinch from (doing) something,
- abstention,
- take the pledge,
- took the pledge,
- rejection,
- Shying,
- passes on,
- Reprobating,
- keep to oneself,
- packed in,
- leash,
- sends up,
- left out,
- keep,
- elect,
- spurn,
- abnegation,
- pass up,
- be teetotal,
- prevent,
- fast,
- go without,
- starves,
- forbearance,
- hold out on,
- turn over a new leaf,
- forbear from,
- stop oneself,
- take the cure,
- stay off,
- can't bring yourself to do something,
- starve,
- refuse,
- Famishing,
- restraint,
- omit to do something,
- refrain from,
- bother,
- stay out,
- restrain oneself,
- pass on,
- stepped aside,
- stay away,
- send up,
- leave out,
- have no truck with,
- shy away from,
- sidestep,
- conclude,
- by-passing,
- forbear,
- unseat,
- keep under one's hat,
- clam up,
- stand apart,
- have no choice,
- held down,
- throw out,
- stand aloof from,
- laid low,
- cooling down,
- dismiss,
- waiver,
- fending off,
- Bitted,
- vote,
- keep out of,
- neglect,
- repudiation,
- decline,
- let nature take its course,
- fettered,
- duck,
- passed on,
- constrain,
- hobble,
- carry,
- put aside,
- keep aloof from,
- keep secret,
- reprobates,
- keep off,
- teetotal,
- slack,
- quit,
- not do,
- tiptoe around,
- sent up,
- turning aside,
- vote out,
- duck out of,
- reduce,
- discontinue,
- recoil,
- vote off,
- cooled down,
- Forgone,
- stimulant,
- input,
- standoff,
- circumvent,
- escape,
- take oath,
- circumlocute,
- sit on one's hands,
- get out of,
- not use,
- Manacling,
- ignore,
- stay away from,
- relinquish,
- rein in,
- trim,
- shirk,
- stand by,
- By-pass,
- avoidance,
- make no move,
- let be,
- Entrammel,
- shun,
- stop,
- road,
- eschew,
- dispense with,
- stand around,
- renunciation,
- stimulus,
- bypass,
- steer clear of,
- forgoing,
- keep tight rein on,
- not think of,
- skip out on,
- Shied,
- push aside,
- vote down,
- abnegate,
- cooling off,
- keep under wraps,
- pass,
- clammed up,
- route,
- vote in,
- wanter,
- let go by,
- resignation,
- give the slip,
- abdication,
- dummied up,
- needer,
- shakes off,
- cop out,
- box in,
- stand aside,
- demur,
- send regrets,
- keep back,
- hide behind,
- resist,
- turn thumbs down,
- have no hand in,
- reelect,
- abandonment,
- slim,
- step aside,
- screen out,
- be deprived of,
- help,
- not move,
- stay out of,
- hogtie,
- go short,
- take the oath,
- kept secret,
- giving over,
- let alone,
- turn away,
- desist from,
- ballot,
- faire,
- save,
- ward off,
- not touching,
- leave,
- spare,
- Refusing,
- keeping to oneself,
- reined in,
- cease,
- left alone,
- be quiet,
- shelve,
- leaving out,
- Reprobated,
- go hungry,
- eat sparingly,
- sit by,
- dispense,
- shy away,
- throw back,
- taking the cure,
- sit on the fence,
- avoid,
- shake off,
- give the go by,
- curb,
- disapprove of,
- let pass,
- elude,
- give warning,
- shake and bake,
- starve oneself,
- not touch,
- go easy,
- forswear,
- held in,
- repudiate,
- abstinence,
- not accepted,
- deny,
- Paused,
- shies,
- blow off,
- cool down,
- exercise self-restraint,
- don't buy,
- cool off,
- reserve,
- do without,
- lay off,
- dodge,
- Lacker,
- forego,
- put in,
- wriggle out of (doing) something,
- forgo,
- leaves out,
- keep clear,
- shrink from,
- clamming up,
- dummy up,
- refrain,
- be temperate,
- vote through,
- Escaping,
- stand-by,
- supersede,
- have done with,
- fake out,
- boxes in,
- hold back,
- have nothing to do with,
- sit on,
- shuffle off,
- tie,
- eschewal,
- let well enough alone,
- waive,
- leave alone,
- abjure,
- skive off,
- avoid alcohol,
- renounce,
- disclaimer,
- be inactive,
- skip,
- evade,
- turned aside,
- not accept,
- desist,
- Forsworn,
- give up,
- skipped town,
- sitting on,
- stand aloof,
- holding in,
- iced,
- maintain,
- reject,
- passing on,
- keep away,
- passed up,
- Manacled,
- diet,
- go on the wagon,
- packs in,
- sit out,
- fall short,
- skip town,
- straddle,
- deny oneself,
- swearing off,
- steering clear of,
- sit it out,
- nixing,
- disuse,
- leave off,
- not eat,
- hold down,
- stop away,
- pause,
- faked out,
- Withdrew,
- abstain from,
- do-nothing,
- withholds,
- discard,
- withhold,
- famish,
- turn aside from,
- blackball,
- withheld,
- hold off,
- fence-sit,
- abstain,
- finish.
Usage Examples for ABSTAIN
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I could have wished, to abstain from speaking of the royal government in the first part of this work: but it was impossible. - "Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I" by Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon
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That was for sure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name- change made him abstain from bits of himself. - "Corpus of a Siam Mosquito" by Steven Sills
