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: --
More than once he refers to having seen unknown plants or drugs, but often he abstains from describing them.
Patients were either unmedicated or had abstained from a psychostimulant medication regime for at least 24 h prior to neurocognitive assessment.
The current study was not able to differentiate adolescents within the abstinence group based on their reasoning for abstaining from substance use.
As a consequence, lower income groups abstained from buying the tobacco leaf.
Many of those who abstained preferred to take the risk of being 'punished' for not voting rather than pay the consequences of a ' bad ' choice.
To prevent close pregnancies completely though not always intentionally, man in pre-industrial societies abstained from intercourse for varying periods.
I calculated the probability of casting a vote for the incumbent party, as opposed to abstaining or voting for his opponent.
Agalev abstained because it felt the resolutions hinted at a confederal rather than a federal model.
