verb, noun
verb [V] ~ (from sth / from doing sth) (formal) to stop yourself from doing sth, especially sth that you want to do:
Please refrain from smoking. * They appealed to the protesters to refrain from violence. * He has refrained from criticizing the government in public.
Part of speech: noun
1 a comment or complaint that is often repeated:
Complaints about poor food in schools have become a familiar refrain. * The protest began with a small group, but then the others took up the refrain.
2 the part of a song that is repeated after each verse
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for refrain is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is refrain a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, refrain is tagged as noun.
Does refrain appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — refrain appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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