- Avoided voting - Refrained - Refrained from - Refrained from taking part - Refrained voluntarily - Sailor said ten characters went without liquor - Sinbad ate out but chose not to drink
- 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
- Abstains from eating - Abstains from food - Abstains from food or drink - Doesn’t consume food quickly having started slowly - Goes without food - Shuns food
- Battled (infection) - Held out - Is back in, rested, having put up a fight - Refrained from yielding - Relocated sister before journalist put up a fight - Stood firm - Stood up to