Crossword-Solution: ABSTAINS
We have 14 clues for the answer “ABSTAINS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Chooses not to choose | 1 answer |
| Chooses not to consume | 1 answer |
| Declines to vote | 1 answer |
| Does not cast a ballot | 1 answer |
| Doesn't participate | 1 answer |
| Doesn't say yes or no | 1 answer |
| Doesn't vote | 1 answer |
| Lays off, with "from" | 1 answer |
| Opts not to opt | 1 answer |
| Refrains, as from voting. | 1 answer |
| Stays out of it | 1 answer |
| Refrains from | 4 answers |
| Refrains | 7 answers |
| Holds back. | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ORECNA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABSTAINS (5)
During the month of Ramadan, from the rising to the setting of the sun, the Mussulman abstains from eating, and drinking, and women, and baths, and perfumes; from all nourishment that can restore his strength, from all pleasure that can gratify his senses.
Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast, And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? For sleeping England long time have I watched; Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt.
One man combines them, another abstains altogether; some there are who seek the satisfaction of their anterior appetites from the whole sex; others idealize their love in one woman who is to them the universe; some float irresolutely between the delights of matter and the joys of soul, others spiritualize the body, requiring of it that which it cannot give.
But when the stolen pages are rescued and put by for him, he abstains from taking an interest in the retrieval; he will do nothing to restore them.
Achilles, offended by Agamemnon, abstains from the war; and in his absence the Greeks are no match for Hector.
Quotes with ABSTAINS (3)
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1957–2023).