- Keep back; withhold - Patiently abstain - Refrain (from) - Refrain in aid of grizzly - An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. - To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. - To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
- Abstain from food - Abstain from food for health or religious reasons - Don’t eat like Usain Bolt! - Eat nothing - fortified - Go without food - Hell for leather
- Fail to disclose - Keep back by means of wrestling move - Keep secret - Refrain from giving - Refuse to give or grant - Suppress or restrain - To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
- Absolve - Excuse - Forgive - Forgive or excuse - The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or
of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment;
absolution. - An official warrant of remission of penalty. - The state of being forgiven.
- Agreement to do or refrain from doing some act - Binding agreement - Formal agreement - A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or
one of the stipulations in such an agreement. - An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and
by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in
Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the
"Solemn League and Covenant." - The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures,
conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience,
repentance, faith, etc. - A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain
its faith, discipline, etc.