Abstain is valid Scrabble Word

Is abstain a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is abstain valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for ABSTAIN in dictionary:

VERB:

to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice
refrain from drinking alcohol
restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something
formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion
choose not to do something
To hold one\'s self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.
To hinder; to withhold.
refrain from voting
choose not to consume

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to refrain voluntarily

Words related to ABSTAIN

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Words that contain ABSTAIN

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How to use ABSTAIN in a sentence

Many of them resolved, as soon as parliament had rejected the bill, to abstain from the use of West Indian produce.
I do not assert that inferior writers abstain from the familiar and trivial.
It is good to abstain, and teach others to abstain, from all that is sinful or hurtful.
During the day, it is quite a science to keep the appetite dormant, and the people not only abstain from eating and drinking, but as much as possible from the sight of food.
The undersigned will abstain from any remarks upon these contradictory statements until Mr.
But there were moments in which he could hardly abstain from expressing himself with animosity.
A few years ago, it was the politic and therefore the proper course to abstain from all allusion to this controversy, and to keep it as far as possible in the background.
Water moderately, and when the flowers fade abstain from supplying moisture.
I am bold enough now to believe that no one need abstain from agriculture for fear he will not recognise the nature of the soil.
So long as you abstain from speaking on one painful subject, I will listen to you with the greatest pleasure.

They are to abstain from all requisitions and are in no way to interfere with measures for national defense taken by the Government concerned.
Yet when Indian writers glorify the deity they rarely abstain from identifying him with the universe.
They abstain almost entirely from the use of images in worship, the only exception being that a small figure of Krishna in the form of Vaikuntha Nâtha is found in their temples.
From time to time adverse comment has been made on the subject of this undertaking of the Reformers to abstain from further participation in politics.
For many years it was the habit of the respectable and educated classes of New York to abstain from voting.
Pack, of the University of Utah, finds that tobacco-using athletes are distinctly inferior to those who abstain.
At night the Spaniards sallied out again, relying upon the habit of the Mexicans to abstain from fighting at night, and burnt several hundred houses.
Much better is it to abstain from judgment, as is permitted, or to submit doubtful points to ecclesiastical superiors.
Syrians abstain from fish out of dread and abhorrence, 456-m.
Can we abstain from exercising it? The States give to their own laws all the effect they can.
He found it as hard to abstain from what gave him pleasure for the moment as to bear whatever seemed unpleasant or painful.
He knew that by day his enemy might without doubt throw a few scouts into these ruins and promote a skirmish, but that by night he would take care to abstain from such a risk.
To abstain from ever seeing her again would be joy more than pain if this were duty to her and to God.
Roger must, therefore, for one day abstain from the turnip-ridges.
The more complex the social organisation the greater the number of acts from which each man must abstain if he desires to do that which is best for all.
Gladstone objects to the employment of such weapons of defence, he would do well to abstain from them in attack.
Finally, I resolved to abstain for the rest of my apprenticeship, which was for five years longer.
The first step to virtue, according both to the Heathen and the Christian philosophy, is to abstain from vice.
Her devotees abstain from animal food on the third and twenty-seventh day of every month.
But if we see them, what are we to do? Abstain from speech.
In their speech they abstain from the use of flattering words and of titles.
But I shall abstain from all comparisons, by which I might offend any.

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