Crossword-Solution: ABSTAINED 9 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Abstained imp. & p. p. of Abstain

We have 10 clues for the answer “ABSTAINED”

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Avoided voting 1 answer
Declined to vote 1 answer
Did not participate 1 answer
Didn't vote, perhaps 1 answer
Kept it in one's pants, in a way 1 answer
Refrained from voting 1 answer
Refused to vote 1 answer
Stayed sober 1 answer
See title 14 answers
Held back 21 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ABSTAINED (5)

She could have made an inquiry or two, as to the expedition and the expense of the Irish mails;—it was at her tongue’s end—but she abstained.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
Lady Montbarry has informed us that she abstained from engaging another maid in consequence of the extreme dislike which his lordship expressed to having strangers in the house, in the state of his health at that time.
The Haunted Hotel Wilkie Collins 2008
She abstained on the present occasion from expressing disbelief, for she wished not to irritate her sister.
An International Episode Henry James 2008
The funny man thoughtfully abstained from conversation, and left our illusion quite alone, sparing us all jarring criticism and analysis; and he gave me no chance, when he deposited us at our gate, to get rid of the clumsy expressions of gratitude I had been laboriously framing.
Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 2008
Anna noticed that, though ready enough to impart his own plans, Owen studiously abstained from putting any questions about hers.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with ABSTAINED (3)

There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe as we do. But their ignorance prevents them... we must bear patiently with these people and not use our liberty; since it brings to peril or harm to body or soul... but if we use our liberty unnecessarily, and deliberately cause offense to our neighbor, we drive away the very one who in time would come to our faith. Thus St. Paul circumcised Timothy (Acts 16:3) because simple …
Martin Luther
Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.
Suzanne Finnamore Split: A Memoir of Divorce
If the number of religious converts who converted during a season of intense suffering is high, then does that mean that the number of religious abstainers who abstained because their life was already satisfying is correspondingly low? If so, does this argue for or against religion’s relevance in the world? If theistic religion is attractive, useful, and remedial only for those broken people in the most dismal of needful situations, then is this truly the work of a God or is …
Michael Vito Tosto Portrait of an Infidel: The Acerbic Account of How a Passionate Christian Became an Ardent Atheist
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (2003–2020).