Dictionary Entry
refrain
refrain is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
- 2transitive verb
To abstain from
- 3intransitive verb
To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
- 4verb
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.
- 5noun
the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
Synonyms
- 6verb
choose not to consume
"I abstain from alcohol"
- 7verb
resist doing something
"He refrained from hitting him back"
"she could not forbear weeping"
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