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📖 Определения и значения для слова abstain

📒 to choose not to use a vote, either in favour of or against something

  • Ten people voted in favour, five against and two abstained.

📒 to decide not to do or have something, especially something you like or enjoy, because it is bad for your health or considered morally wrong

  • to abstain from alcohol/sex/drugs

📒 to stay away from something

  • The workers who abstained from work yesterday have been suspended.
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