Word "ABSTAIN" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
choose not to consume
Synonyms:
desist, refrain
Examples:
I abstain from alcohol

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
refrain from voting

Crossword Clues for ABSTAIN

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Decline to vote? That's a black mark The Times Quick Cryptic 02 Aug 2025
When drunk, it's a ban: join Alcoholics Anonymous?
Decline to vote on a black mark(7)
Ban it as being unsuitable refrain (7)
Refrain from changing lan's bat (7)
To refrain from voting (7)
Refrain from performing bastinado - do away with it
Decide not to show cross? (7)
Decline to vote Universal 28 May 2025
Don't do it! Tar will mark (7)
Refuse to partake (7)
Decide not to vote (7)
Decline to vote The Sun Two Speed 13 May 2025
Sailor, corrupt, to avoid booze The Sun Two Speed 13 May 2025
Mark follows sailor, but not to drink (7)
Don't. It's a tar mark (7)
Be teetotal (7)
It's a ban put out - so keep away (7)
Refrain from giving a seaman a bad mark (7)
Formally refuse to vote either for or against (7)
Desist The Telegraph Quick 27 Mar 2025
Don't drink from the basin, being at variance with it (7)
Leave liquor out (7)
Decline to vote The Sun Two Speed 20 Mar 2025
Choose to not vote (7)
Seaman Mark to leave booze alone The Sun Two Speed 20 Mar 2025
Decline to vote The Sun Two Speed 23 Feb 2025
Ban Asti perhaps? The Sun Two Speed 23 Feb 2025
Don't vote for sailor with fault (7)
Hold back in a black spot (7)
Refrain, forbear (7)
Refuse to vote and get a black mark (7)
Choose not to participate New York Times 28 Jan 2025
Refrain from making rating over-exert himself right out (7)
Refrain from voting Mirror Classic 21 Jan 2025
Decline to vote The Sun Mini 18 Jan 2025
Don't! It's a ban, maybe (7)
Decline to vote The Sun Two Speed 12 Jan 2025
At basin, rough? Avoid booze! The Sun Two Speed 12 Jan 2025
Vote for neither side (7)
Jack's got Tina dressed to keep dry (7)
Pass on dessert, maybe
Pass with two good marks and a bad one The Times Cryptic 04 Dec 2024
Sailor Mark is not to vote (7) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 30 Nov 2024
Rating it's an alternative way to leave it alone (7)
Keep away ___ it's a ban (7)
Keep away - it's a ban (7)
Choose to refrain from playing with Ian's bat (7) Puzzler Cryptic 09 Nov 2024
Decline to say "aye" or "nay" Newsday 06 Nov 2024
Go without Mirror Tea Time 13 Oct 2024
Refrain from calling a sailor some sort of saint (7)
Vote neither for nor against (7)
Retired graduate with blemish has to sit on the fence? (7)
Don't touch sailor with a blemish (7)
Don't vote - it could be the mark of a seaman (7)
Sailor with mark will not vote (7)
Refuse to cast a vote for or against something (7)
Stay away (from) New York Times 07 Aug 2024
Go without alcohol
Withhold vote to go without alcohol (7)
Take no part
Sailors at place of Berbice campus decline to vote (7)
Do without it, as ban involved (7) Puzzler Cryptic 10 Jun 2024
Decline to participate in getting behind travel agents around start of summer
Don't vote to be a teetotaller (7)
Avoid alcohol (7)
It's a ban that may be revised ___ don't! (7)
Choose to refrain
Muscles occasionally tear in decline The Telegraph Cryptic 22 May 2024
Avoid making the mark of a sailor (7)
Thanks to being in broken basin, won't take drink (7)
Don't do it: the salt will leave a mark (7)
To a sailor it's a black mark not to indulge (7)
Keep away from human blood type that makes a mark (7)
Withhold vote
Jack and Mark take no part (7)
Refrain from giving the sailor a dirty look (7)
Sailor, corrupt, to avoid booze The Sun Two Speed 03 Mar 2024
Decline to vote The Sun Two Speed 03 Mar 2024
Don't vote with a black mark (7) Puzzler Cryptic 27 Feb 2024
Refrain from voting Mirror Classic 20 Feb 2024
Refrain from changing Ian's bat (7)
It is a blot on the sailor to refrain from alcohol (7)
It's a blot on the sailor to refrain from alcohol (7)
Refrain from voting Mirror Classic 09 Jan 2024
Don't drink at basin for a change The Times Quick Cryptic 04 Jan 2024
Sit on fence in a British spot
(ANA) Disturbed inhabitants taking hint don't do it (7)
On a tar mark. don't (7)
Do without it, as ban involved (7) Puzzler Cryptic 07 Nov 2023
Decline to vote The Telegraph Quick 06 Nov 2023
Decline to vote The Telegraph Quick 22 Jul 2023
Go without ashtray, occasionally filling a waste basket The Telegraph Cryptic 18 May 2023
Choose not to do something The Guardian Quick 15 Feb 2023
Hold back sailor with taint of guilt The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Feb 2023
Refrain (from) Eugene Sheffer 26 Jan 2023
Decline to vote USA Today 19 Sep 2022
Sat awkwardly in a wine store, choose not to partake? The Times Cryptic 09 Sep 2022
Jack and Mark do not vote The Times Cryptic 02 Aug 2022
Hold back! Injured boatswain letting out cry of pain
Refrain from drinking Premier Sunday 15 May 2022
Refrain from commenting on stomach mark. Irish Times Crosaire 07 May 2022
Refrain (from) Eugene Sheffer 12 Feb 2022
Don't cross a ballot paper with a black mark
Refrain from voting The Guardian Quick 18 Oct 2021
Decline to vote The Telegraph Quick 18 Sep 2021
Bats in a building - don't touch them Irish Times Crosaire 29 May 2021
Sailor, corrupt, to avoid booze The Sun Two Speed 08 May 2021
Decline to vote The Sun Two Speed 08 May 2021
Choose not to vote The Telegraph Quick 12 Apr 2021
Stay alcohol-free LA Times Daily 29 Mar 2021
Stay alcohol-free The Washington Post 29 Mar 2021
Decline to vote The Times Concise 29 Mar 2021
Drunk sat in a skip has to leave booze alone
Refuse a black mark
Seaman Mark to leave booze alone The Sun Two Speed 21 Feb 2021
Don't put an X rating on the spot
Refrain from imbibing Premier Sunday 20 Dec 2020
  Do not cross any politicians on election day!
Way one is packed in a container — keep away
Drunk sat in a skip? Leave booze alone! The Sun Two Speed 25 Aug 2020
Decline to vote rejecting outrageous lie from insatiable criminal
26 Mark, after sailor, to hold back
Ban Asti perhaps? The Sun Two Speed 30 May 2020
One blackbird's heading over spot to sit on fence
Just not do it? Family Time 20 Apr 2020
Hold back Jack's vessel, circling area The Telegraph Toughie 13 Feb 2020
Do without it, as ban involved
Don't vote for Arron Banks' small-minded Tory arrant immigration nonsense, for starters
Don't vote using a black mark
Sat drunkenly having entered a wine store? Leave booze alone! The Telegraph Toughie 16 Oct 2019
Possibly fast opening to accident black spot The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Sep 2019
Resist The Telegraph Quick 28 Jul 2019
Keep away from type of blood spot
Sailors and reserves lead Indian refrain
A black mark for forbear
Don't put an X: it's a black mark
Be a good designated driver New York Times 06 Jan 2019
Be a good designated driver
Take no side The Washington Post 23 Dec 2018
Take no side LA Times Daily 23 Dec 2018
Playing tabs in a refrain The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Nov 2018
Refrain from Carmen keeping our time now The Telegraph Toughie 23 Nov 2018
See sailor with 6 give up booze The Telegraph Toughie 13 Nov 2018
Having a ban sit out and take no part The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Oct 2018
Do without The Telegraph Quick 27 Aug 2018
Voluntarily refrain
Don't drink one drop of beer, Mark
Decline to vote Premier Sunday 08 Apr 2018
Do without it, as ban involved The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Jan 2018
Decide not to vote, collecting a black mark The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Jan 2018
Ban Asti cocktail — don't drink!
Take no side
Go without a black mark
Pass a black spot
Fail to make a mark, maybe a black mark
Pass up a street in Bahrain, but not the centre
Bats fluttering in wet conditions first off stay dry The Telegraph Toughie 10 Aug 2017
Stay away from salt dye The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Aug 2017
Successfully resist temptation Wall Street Journal 22 Jul 2017
Formally decline to vote The Times Concise 20 Jul 2017
Refrain from giving sailor a dirty look
Salt mark's not come down on either side The Telegraph Toughie 02 May 2017
Refrain The Telegraph Quick 07 Mar 2017
Don't vote for a black mark
To not vote is a black mark The Telegraph Toughie 17 Feb 2017
One nabs it anyway, don't go
Choose not to vote, or drink Irish Times Simplex 11 Nov 2016
Refuse to vote The Times Concise 31 Oct 2016
Pass a black spot The Times Cryptic 27 Oct 2016
In a wine store, head of Salvation Army not to be tempted? The Times Cryptic 25 Aug 2016
Choose not to vote Universal 07 Aug 2016
Disgrace after sailor will not drink The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Aug 2016
Not vote The Telegraph Quick 25 Jun 2016
Refrain from taking sailor to spot
Refuse to put a cross in a black spot The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Apr 2016
Fast The Washington Post 24 Apr 2016
Choose not to vote
Sit out the vote Thomas Joseph 02 Dec 2015
Don't vote and get a black mark
Don't vote and get a black mark The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Nov 2015
Avoid The Telegraph Quick 27 Sep 2015
Refrain from seeing holy woman in a French bath
Choose not to participate USA Today 27 Feb 2015
Napalm Death "I ___"
Choose not to participate
Lay off sailor with stigma
Choose not to vote
Keep off tar splotch
Express no view on seaman's blemish
Not partake
Refuse to vote, putting Jack on the spot
Choose not to participate
Decline to vote
Refrain (from)
Refrain from
Don't drink liqueur without the covering 'Cheers!'
Choose not to vote
What the celibate do
Sit out the vote
Choose not to vote
Teetotal
Choose not to vote
Skip voting
Stay on the wagon
Decline to vote
Purposely have no sex life
Decline to vote
Fast
Refrain from voting
Fast, e.g.
Refrain
Teetotal
Refrain
Lay off
Refrain
What a celibate will do
Holdoff
Forbear
Choose to not participate
Decline to decide
Shun the voting booth
Hold back
Hold back
Choose not to choose
Not raise a hand, say
Choose not to choose
Decline to decide
Voluntarily refrain
Avoid, with "from"
Fast
Practice self-denial
Refrain
Decline to vote
Sit on one's hands?
Just say no?
Teetotal
Forgo
Refrain from voting, U. N. style.
Stand aloof.
Withhold.
Refrain, as from voting.
Avoid doing
Cast no vote, as in U. N.
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