abstaining
Meaning of abstaining
verb, gerund or present participle
- restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something.
she intends to abstain from sex before marriage
- formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion.
forty-one voted with the Opposition, and some sixty more abstained
late Middle English: from Old French abstenir, from Latin abstinere, from ab- ‘from’ + tenere ‘hold’.
Information about abstaining
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of abstaining
ab-stain-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- abstaining is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
abstaining antonyms
Meaning give or register a vote:
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