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What (who) is abstain - definition
abstain
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Abstain; Abstained
v. (D; intr.) to abstain from (to abstain from alcohol)
abstain
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Abstain; Abstained
(abstains, abstaining, abstained)
1.
If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it. (FORMAL)
Abstain from sex or use condoms...
Do you drink alcohol, smoke, or abstain?
VERB: V from n, V
2.
If you abstain during a vote, you do not use your vote.
Three Conservative MPs abstained in the vote.
VERB: V
Examples of use of abstain
1. Labor‘s Shelly Yachimovich said she would abstain.
2. President George Bush who ordered her to instead abstain.
3. Bush refused, simply instructing Rice to abstain from the vote.
4. Former justice minister Irwin Cotler said he would abstain.
5. Some 24 senators decided to abstain from the vote.