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Refraining from alcohol
Answer for the clue "Refraining from alcohol ", 9 letters:
abstinent
Alternative clues for the word abstinent
- Avoiding alcohol, having gone without can
- It's a bent to get drunk around first of November, taking part in Go Sober for October?
- Not indulging appetite for food or drink
- Refraining from use
- Showing self-restraint
- Not taking drink out — can found inside
- A person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
Word definitions for abstinent in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstinent \Ab"sti*nent\, n. One who abstains. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious" [syn: abstentious ] n. a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages [syn: abstainer , nondrinker ] [ant: drinker ]
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.