Usually means: Choosing not to take action.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. refraining: Merriam-Webster
  2. refraining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. refraining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Refraining, refraining: Wordnik
  5. refraining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. refraining: Wiktionary
  7. Refraining, refraining: Dictionary.com
  8. refraining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Refraining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Refraining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. refraining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. refraining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. refraining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refraining: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refraining: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refraining)

▸ noun:  The act of one who refrains from doing something.

Similar:
forbear, abstain, desist, forebear, chorus, refrenation, restraining, refusal, restrainment, renunciation, more...

Types:
fasting, abstinence, denial, restraint, self-control, more...

Phrases:
refraining from, more...

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Similar:
forbear, abstain, desist, forebear, chorus, refrenation, restraining, refusal, restrainment, renunciation, more...

Types:
fasting, abstinence, denial, restraint, self-control, more...

Phrases:
refraining from, more...



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