0 to not do something, especially something enjoyable that you think might be bad:
3 to not do something you could do, esp. something that is unhealthy or gives you pleasure:
The sole television channel, on the air since 1954, completely abstained from political programmes and editorials.
Before each testing session, subjects were fasted for at least 4 h and abstained from caffeine.
They had different mentalities and abstained as much as possible from social responsibilities.
By contrast, when currently abstaining users were also included the correlations with days since last use fell well short of significance.
All subjects abstained from caffeine, alcohol and nicotine for at least 8 h before each session.
Only 34 per cent said that they would vote for it, while 44 per cent would vote against (the rest didn't know or abstained).
The second group includes those who were members of the institution at the time of both divisions, but who abstained on one or other ballot.
Agalev abstained because it felt the resolutions hinted at a confederal rather than a federal model.
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çok istediği bir şeyden uzak durmak, mahrum kalmak, uzak durmak…
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