Refrained

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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of refrain.
  • Word Usage
    "But, oh, I know I raised my face in frank answer to the thunder and trumpets of the message unspoken, and that, had it been death for that one look and that one moment I could not have refrained from the gift of myself that must have been in my face and eyes, in the very body of me that breathed so high."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    verb-stem
    refrain