Crossword-Solution: REFRAINED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refrained | imp. & p. p. | of Refrain |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REFRAINED | anagram | DINERFARE |
We have 7 clues for the answer “REFRAINED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Held one's temper | 1 answer |
| Held oneself back (from) | 1 answer |
| Practiced abstinence | 1 answer |
| Stopped oneself (from) | 1 answer |
| Desisted | 4 answers |
| ABSTAINED | 4 answers |
| Held back | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REFRAINED (5)
The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his speciality from his youth, he wisely refrained from deputing the task of tending them at this season to a hireling or a novice.
These humiliated outcasts had the frowsy and unbrushed and apologetic look of wet cats, and their eyes were glazed with drowsiness, their bodies were adroop from crown to sole, and all kind-hearted people refrained from asking them if they had been to Bayreuth and failed to connect, as knowing they would lie.
The wily Malay had long refrained from pillaging the Ithaca for fear such an act might militate against the larger villainy he purposed perpetrating against her white owner, but when he rounded the point and came in sight of the stranded wreck he put all such thoughts from him and made straight for the helpless hulk to glean whatever of salvage might yet remain within her battered hull.
Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance.
But Ralph laughed aloud, and shook his finger at him and refrained him, and his wrath ran off him and he laughed, and shoved the victual into him doughtily, and sighed for pleasure when he had made an end and drunk a draught of wine.
Quotes with REFRAINED (3)
It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Let there be a child, who should, not be taught. Let there be a child, who should, be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don’t preach him, dear. Don’t let him read the quotations, on internet and make them his passion. Don’t tell him stories of successful, and make them his anthem. Allow him to grow unto what, he is to know.
Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather put him off, and for years he had refrained from framing them, for fear that if he hung them up, the first idiot who saw them would might feel obliged to dishonour them with a few inanities and go into stereotyped ecstasies over them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1986–2022).