What are some opposite words for refrain?
Antonyms for refrain
rɪˈfreɪnre·frain
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term refrain.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
refrain
Strains of music may gradually or suddenly cease. A man quits work on the instant; he may discontinue a practise gradually; he quits suddenly and completely; he stops short in what he may or may not resume; he pauses in what he will probably resume. What intermits or is intermitted returns again, as a fever that intermits. Compare ABANDON; DIE; END; REST.
Antonyms:
begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, set about, set going, set in operation, set on foot, startSynonyms:
abstain, bring to an end, cease, come to an end, conclude, desist, discontinue, end, end, finish, give over, intermit, leave off, pause, quit, stop, terminatePreposition:
Cease from anger.
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Princeton's WordNet
refrain, chorusverb
the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
Synonyms:
chorus line, chorusrefrain, forbearverb
resist doing something
"He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"
abstain, refrain, desistverb
choose not to consume
"I abstain from alcohol"
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How to use refrain in a sentence?
We call upon the actor in question to refrain from carrying out disruptive malicious cyber activity against the Czech Republic's healthcare system or similar infrastructure elsewhere.
Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
We've reached the stage where even without the government doing anything, mass media produce articles that cozy up to authorities or refrain from criticism, the public is not getting the right information to make decisions.
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