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v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"

v. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"

v. cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

v. avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

v. resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

v. "The court adjourned"

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

v. make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"

v. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

v. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

v. refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

v. express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country"

v. serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"