User Contributed Dictionary
Verb
refraining- present participle of refrain
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare,
Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, avoidance, avoiding reaction,
banyan day, celibacy,
chastity, circumvention, continence, defense
mechanism, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, eschewal, evasion, evasive action,
evasiveness,
fast, fish day, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fruitarianism, getting
around, gymnosophy,
jink, nephalism, neutrality, nonintervention,
noninvolvement,
plain living, prevention, refrainment, sexual
abstinence, shunning,
shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, simple diet,
slip, spare diet, teetotalism, the pledge, the
runaround, total abstinence, vegetarianism, zigzag