Crossword-Solution: REFRAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refrain | v. t. | To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern. |
| Refrain | v. t. | To abstain from |
| Refrain | v. i. | To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain. |
| Refrain | v. | The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REFRAIN | anagram | AIRFERN |
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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
AAER
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Sentences with REFRAIN (5)
The same mode is sometimes adopted to make the slaves refrain from asking for more food than their regular allowance.
Thou must not stay, Come, come away, Tired wanderer, dost thou heed? (We are far off, but sure our voice can reach.) If aught thou wouldst beseech, Speak where ’tis right; till then refrain from speech.
When strangers looked curiously at the scarlet letter—and none ever failed to do so—they branded it afresh in Hester’s soul; so that, oftentimes, she could scarcely refrain, yet always did refrain, from covering the symbol with her hand.
Through it all ran a refrain: “Way! Way! The Martians are coming!” Few stopped and came aside from that flood.
This was a song about a Greaser dance, the refrain being something like this:— “Pedró, Pedró, swing high, swing low, And it’s allamand left again; For there’s boys that’s bold and there’s some that’s cold, But the góld boys come from Spain, Oh, the góld boys come from Spain!” VIII Winter was long in coming that year.
Quotes with REFRAIN (3)
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a ti…
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough — and even miraculous enough if you insist — I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find …
Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).