- Keep back; withhold - Patiently abstain - Refrain (from) - Refrain in aid of grizzly - Restrain (impulse) - An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. - To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
- 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 as cargo ship might have to be with Harold missing a final letter - Keep back by means of wrestling move - Keep secret - Refrain from giving - Refuse to give or grant - Restrain
- 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.