(v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
(v. t.) To abstain from
(v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
(v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) In partial reshunting on the background of considerable improvement in hemodynamics and the general condition of the patient, one may refrain from carrying out an operation again and continue dynamik observation of the patient.
(2) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(3) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
(4) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
(5) But Rouhani can still use his position as the public face of the Islamic republic to defend Rezaian, which he has refrained from doing, at least so far.
(6) Both promiscuous and nonpromiscuous male homosexuals should refrain from giving blood.
(7) Nevertheless, because of the uncertain future of any type of implant, especially new, we have encouraged the patients to follow a careful postoperative management program and refrain from heavy activity during the first year.
(8) For reasons of comparison, animals were also trained in a delayed go no-go task in which visual cues instructed them to perform or refrain from an arm movement reaction to a subsequent trigger stimulus.
(9) And to a lesser extent in Wales ," has been a persistent refrain during the first decade in the life of the National Assembly.
(10) A professional technician is available for consultation on technical problems, but strictly refrains from intervening in the creative work proper.
(11) Alistair Burt, a Foreign Office minister, urged Libya "to respect the right of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, and on all sides to exercise restraint and refrain from violence".
(12) Nowadays, the management of the crises which accompany significant Life Events (such as birth, marriage, retirement, death...) within this new family-system, is refrained by the lack of "relays" which were previously provided by the "enlarged family".
(13) The latter responded with tear gas, despite orders to refrain from using chemicals against protesters.
(14) chi2-testing, was refrained from in view of the small number of interviewes.
(15) Results indicate that when the harm-doers apologized, as opposed to when they did not, the victim-subjects refrained from severe aggression against them.
(16) I will refrain on saying my thoughts on the National League and pitchers hitting, but all I'm saying here is that maybe it would have been more fun to see a David Oritz or Victor Martinez hitting there instead.
(17) If the assessment is that media coverage will be damaging, news organisations are requested to refrain from reporting.
(18) Refrain from detonating your little bomb,” one of the generals told the commander in charge of the test.
(19) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(20) Media had been asked to refrain from reporting this for fear of further increasing the danger to him from his captors.
Stanza
Definition:
(n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.
(n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Fabio all scored before the break in a stanza run by Anderson and decorated with flashes of artistry by the promising Wilfried Zaha, before Adnan Januzaj and then Jesse Lingard scored in the second half.
(2) During the opening stanza any threat Steve Clarke's team carried came from aiming direct balls in on Costel Pantilimon's goal.
(3) Manchester United beat Club America in pre-season clash Read more That was about it for the opening stanza, though Luke Shaw made one dashing run at the Earthquakes before the referee, Juan Guzman, blew for the break.
(4) A left staggered Frampton at the start of the final stanza but he held his ground.
(5) In his final years, however, reduced to typing with the thumb of his blasted left hand, Comfort returned to stanza, metre, rhyme.
(6) The gesticulations of Iraq's Serbian coach Vladimir Petrovic in the opening stanza were clearly delivered to his charges at the interval.
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(8) Consider the opening stanza: "Put your flags up in the sky And then wave 'em side to side Show the world where you're from Show the world we are one."
(9) The big plus was the lead United held when the club’s second side of the night took their place for the second stanza.
(10) The minute you hear Christopher Walken intoning the opening stanzas of Burnt Norton – one of TS Eliot's own late quartets – you sense that A Late Quartet plans to mine every last meaning from the words in its title.
(11) Both inflections found in this study reflect an increased rate of pituitary growth in relation to the growth rate of body length in the subsequent stanzas.
(12) In the opening stanza this worked fine as United headed to the break 3-0 up.
(13) The closing stanza was a dangerous dance, Nevin wanting to lead, Campbell wanting to go home.
(14) In a video at Regen Projects, Sweet Land of Liberty, the stanzas of the American patriotic anthem My Country ’Tis of Thee disintegrate in Gates’s singing of them, into the soft, fine romantic dream fragments of “we land of liberty”, “from every mountainside”, and “let freedom ring”.
(15) The first three stanzas are worth quoting: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP.
(16) Trailing 10-7 at half-time the Chargers scored 20 unanswered points in the second stanza to win NFL playoff on Sunday and advance to the divisional round against the Denver Broncos.
(17) Van Gaal’s second stanza XI were no better than the first.
(18) The punches that felled him were heavy and arrived unseen – a left hook behind the ear in the third round, a glancing right that relieved his unsteady legs of their power at the start of the fourth then another arcing hook from the left that thumped the top of his head to finish it 32sec from the end of a fierce, thrilling stanza.
(19) During the first developmental stanza when the digestive tract was differentiating and the larvae were dependent on endogenous nutritional reserves, digestive enzyme concentrations were low.
(20) This isn’t about creating a deeper democracy, but deeper markets – and the two are increasingly incompatible We could quote a thousand other such stanzas of euro-poetry, but that single line from Lafontaine shows how far the single-currency project has fallen.