REFRAIN
\ɹɪfɹˈe͡ɪn], \ɹɪfɹˈeɪn], \ɹ_ɪ_f_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n]\
Definitions of REFRAIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
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To abstain from
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To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
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To abstain from
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To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A phrase or strain repeated now and then throughout a poem or song; often, a verse or chorus of a song repeated at the end of each stanza.
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To hold back; do without; check oneself; as, to refrain from doing a thing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To hold within bounds; abstain from action; forbear.
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A strain repeated at intervals, as in a song; a burden.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The burden of a song or that which is repeated at the end of each stanza; a kind of musical repetition. See Refract.
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To hold back; to restrain.
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To keep one's self from action; to forbear.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
