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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refrained: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refrain)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To hold back, to restrain (someone or something).
verb:  (reflexive, archaic) To show restraint; to hold oneself back.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To repress (a desire, emotion etc.); to check or curb.
verb:  (intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew
verb:  (transitive, rare, regional) To abstain from (food or drink).
noun:  The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
noun:  (by extension) A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.
▸ Also see refrain


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