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Refraining from alcohol
Answer for the clue "Refraining from alcohol ", 9 letters:
abstinent
Alternative clues for the word abstinent
- It's a bent to get drunk around first of November, taking part in Go Sober for October?
- Avoiding alcohol, having gone without can
- A person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
- Not drinking
- On the wagon
- Refraining from use
- Not indulging appetite for food or drink
- Not taking drink out — can found inside
Word definitions for abstinent in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) (R:SOED5: page=10) Etymology 2 n. 1 One who abstains; a faster. (First attested around 1350 to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstinent \Ab"sti*nent\, a. [F. abstinent, L. abstinens, p. pr. of abstinere. See Abstain .] Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. --Beau. & Fl.
Usage examples of abstinent.
We had discovered each other, Brody and I, making love anywhere and everywhere as though we had been abstinent for years.
They took away his Florsheims after 24 abstinent hours had passed and he started to perhaps D.